There are God’s Laws and The Constitution.
God’s laws mostly tells you what you can’t do. There are what, 613 of god’s laws in the bible?
God’s gun law is; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
The Constitution says you can speak and defend yourself.
The Bill of Rights gives us the Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. And “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Your right, the Constitution needs to be put in a form that commutates the same meanings to everyone.
A book written in 2009 by Harvey Silverglate called, Three Felonies a Day, says that the Americans unwittingly commits three felonies a day because of vague laws.
That tells me that we are in a very dangerous place of our history.
Now we are giving absolute power to the government over everything we say and do.
Sad to say, but it might just be these nuts that flip out with an AK-47 that will keep the government from exercising total control of all aspects of life over the people.
Any government that creates or allows a class system has no business having the control it does today.
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That would be a coup. As for if the people support the dictatorship, that is why we are a Constitutional republic, designed to protect the minority from the majority (and the majority from the elite minority).
If we are going to have a class system then a speeding ticket that in California costs the driver $900.00 should cost the rich $15,000.00 and the elite $250,000.00 to have the same total effect of being a penalty that will hurt the person in a financial way as stop a repeated offence. Story in today’s news about Hedge Fund Managers making $1M/hr. They make in one hour what takes the average guy 47 years to make. They are in a class of their own. Their ticket should be $90,000,000.00 to be fair and have the same effect of law.
How is the Constitution going to address these class problems? I might be a little heavy on the class differences today because they just about passed a Farm Bill that some congressmen claimed as many as 10M Americans would be without anyway to get food. Not that the upper classes give a daxx.
Same with business, a lot of business today, especially banks figure in Federal and State penalties as part of doing business. The small guy would be put out of business with just one of these fines.
I’m not trying to throw a wrench in the thinking. I just see so much of a difference in classes that the Constitution services the people differently according to their class or connections.
Note, the Veda and the Babylonians had class systems and different payments for the class systems; it even applied to payments for medical services. Let me make it clearer, the Veda had four classes; you paid a fine amount based according to the class you were in.
On the third point of what America’s war machine should do.
I always thought WMD or not, I was upset on the pictures of the nerve gases used against a Kurdish village in northern Iraq. That was enough for us to go into Iraq. We set him up in power the right thing was to take him down.
But the new issue is going to be China. In twenty years they may have the technical edge on us. Did you see in the news the other day that China now has the most powerful computer in the world?