From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #156 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, January 28 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 156 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: (NJC) Canada and the US (was Lyrics) [Sally ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:20:53 -0500 From: Sally Subject: Re: (NJC) Canada and the US (was Lyrics) Well put Lori! I think there's been plenty of documented evidence over our basic disregard for, and manipulation of the incontrovertible intent with regard to the US Constitution! As for this: > I don't understand why the rest of the world puts up with that May I suggest the green spendable stuff that drives nearly everything anymore?! The march to war in Iraq astonished me and I kept hoping that our worldwide brothers and sisters were going to raise hell about it. Although most nations refused to join us, we still pressed on. Bush was the single worst and most embarrassing thing to happen to this country in a very long time. The truly frightening thing is that he did not act alone. Many were complicit. So although he is out of office, the crimes live on as do his partners in crime. It's crazy! Sent from Confunction Junction on my iPhone On Jan 28, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Lori Renee Fye wrote: > > They've managed to manipulate the news > > to target patriotic feelings that people > > have...right to bear arms > > I recently wrote something on Facebook about this "right to bear arms" nonsense. I really don't know why it's so difficult to understand what the framers of the Constitution and its Amendments meant. Those men knew very well the proper usage of punctuation -- in particular the comma and the semicolon -- and it's very obvious to me what they intended. Let's use the First and Second Amendments as examples. > > The text of the First Amendment is as follows: > > "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." > > Notice that the First Amendment contains semicolons. > > The reason it contains semicolons is because you can take the First Amendment apart, so that its phrases can stand alone. All of it is still the law, but one part is not dependent upon another part, or the entire Amendment, to be the law. In other words, there are three parts to the First Amendment, and they operate independently. > > In other words: > > 1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. > > 2) Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. > > 3) Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. > > You don't have to be able to freely exercise religion or speech in order to peaceably assemble. You certainly CAN freely exercise religion or speech while assembling, but you can also assemble and not say a word at all, or even pray. (Oh, and by the way, the very first line in the First Amendment means that Christianity is not, and never has been, and hopefully never will be, the national religion of the United States.) > > The text of the Second Amendment is as follows: > > "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." > > There is not a semicolon in the entire text of the Second Amendment. All of its parts were meant to be considered together as a whole. > > There really is no other way to interpret this, as it relies on basic, established rules of English, particularly as they were established at the time the Constitution and the Amendments were written. > > Note the key words "well regulated" and "Militia." If the framers of the Constitution and the Amendments had intended for every citizen to have the right to keep and bear Arms, the Amendment would say, simply: "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." > > That's not what it says, however. > > Therefore, citizens who are not members of a state's National Guard or some other well regulated militia do not have a Constitutional right to keep and bear Arms. > > > right to illegally bomb other countries back into > > the Stone Age on the off chance they might be > > doing something we think is bad, etc. > > I don't understand why the rest of the world puts up with that, particularly from the only country that ever used something as horrifying as the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. > > Lori > Wales ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #156 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. 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