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June 28, 2010

High Court’s Big Ruling For Gun Rights

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  What you need to hear but never have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ&feature=email

 

High Court’s Big Ruling For Gun Rights

 

June 28, 2010 – 10:07 AM | by: Lee Ross 

In its second major ruling on gun rights in three years, the Supreme Court Monday extended the federally protected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The decision will be hailed by gun rights advocates and comes over the opposition of gun control groups, the city of Chicago and four justices.  

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the five justice majority saying “the right to keep and bear arms must be regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as the States legislated in an evenhanded manner.”  

The ruling builds upon the Court’s 2008 decision in D.C. v. Heller that invalidated the handgun ban in the nation’s capital. More importantly, that decision held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was a right the Founders specifically delegated to individuals. The justices affirmed that decision and extended its reach to the 50 states. Today’s ruling also invalidates Chicago’s handgun ban.  

Backgrounder:  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears poised to issue a ruling that will expand to the states the high court’s historic 2008 ruling that individuals have a federally protected right to keep and bear arms, following an hour-long argument Tuesday. If so, the decision would mark another hallmark victory for gun rights advocates and likely strike down Chicago’s handgun ban that is similar to the Washington D.C. law already invalidated by the justices.  

Tuesday’s lively arguments featured lawyer Alan Gura, the same man who argued and won D.C. v. Heller in 2008. He now represents Otis McDonald who believes Chicago’s handgun ban doesn’t allow him to adequately protect himself. Gura argued the Heller decision which only applied to Washington D.C. and other areas of federal control should equally apply to Chicago and the rest of the country.  

“In 1868, our nation made a promise to the McDonald family that they and their descendants would henceforth be American citizens, and with American citizenship came the guarantee enshrined in our Constitution that no State could make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of American citizenship,” Gura told the Court.  

He argued the language of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment forces the states to protect the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The Bill of Rights, which was adopted in the late 18th Century, was then commonly viewed as only offering protections from the federal government.  

It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the Supreme Court in a piecemeal fashion began to apply–or incorporate–parts of the Bill of Rights to the states. It has used the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause to incorporate most of the Constitution’s first amendments but has not yet done so for the Second Amendment. Gura argued that another part of the 14th Amendment would be a better vehicle for the justices to make their ruling but there didn’t appear to be enough support from the bench on that front.  

Chief Justice John Roberts was the most vocal advocate of using the Due Process Clause to extend the Second Amendment rights to the states. “I don’t see how you can read — I don’t see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment…was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant.”  

The discussion over “liberty” was a major philosophical theme of the arguments. Gura and National Rifle Association lawyer Paul Clement argued that the rights articulated in the Second Amendment are fundamental freedoms and would exist to all Americans even if there was no law specifically saying so.  

James Feldman, lawyer for the City of Chicago, defended his city’s handgun ban and argued why the Heller decision’s Second Amendment guarantee doesn’t comport with the view that it represents a vital protection of liberty that needs to be expanded to the states.  

“[T]he right it protects is not implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” Feldman said. “States and local governments have been the primary locus of firearms regulation in this country for the last 220 years. Firearms unlike anything else that is the subject of a provision of the Bill of Rights are designed to injure and kill.”  

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in Heller and wondered why the right to bear arms was necessary to extend to the states. “[I]f the notion is that these are principles that any free society would adopt, well, a lot of free societies have rejected the right to keep and bear arms.”  

Later in the arguments Roberts disputed that notion. “I do think the focus is our system of ordered liberty, not any abstract system of ordered liberty. You can say Japan is a free country, but it doesn’t have the right to trial by — by jury.”  

Roberts was part of the five member majority in Heller and there’s a good chance Tuesday’s case will result in a similar 5-4 outcome. All of the members of the Heller majority are still on the Court and at least one of them would have to rule against extending the Second Amendment protection in order for the opposing side to prevail  


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June 26, 2010

I shall destroy America, Oh and I am a Muslim.

Filed under: My Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 4:45 pm

The weather in the gulf points to a possible formation of a  tropical/ maybe a hurricane. While Americans in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,Alabama and Florida are saying OH NO!  Obama, white house staff, sierra club, national wildlife federation, nature conservacy, are  all sitting around, as most suspect, saying Yes! Yes! Yes!, bring it  on.  By stopping those that wanted to help clean up the oil before it ever reached the beach.  Obama and friends will go down in history as the administration and friends of the  administration that drove the nail in the Gulf and U.S. Economy. That were directly responsible for the environmental destruction in the gulf states due to intentionally preventing timely actions.

I received word this morning that evacuation plans are in the works. I wonder if obama sent sieu down to help with the evacuations.  Surely , we all know those are jobs only union members can do.

Every issue facing America today , is being made worse by this president,his administration,and every agency with in the federal government .  In November 2010, if we make it that long. We must make certain that we elect 34 strong anti obama,and federal government Governors.  Those newly elected Governors will be charged with sluffing off , this president, his administration and every agency of the federal government.  In my view , its over. 

One of my readers the other day sent me a personal email.  She said, Bruce maybe we have  this border thing all wrong.  What if , she said, we let these drug cartels move freely about the country. Where is the attraction for all these drugs?  She went on to say, it must be the colleges and universities especially here in Arizona.  So why not just let them go directly to those institutions, deliver their drugs , let them leave and go get some more. She said , lets face it , it was those Universities teaching their anti Americanism and their students that elected obama in the first place.  (She obviously left out government employees).  She said lets, let them blow their brains,and heart valves, and good ridence.  Is she on to something? You decided.

She got me to thinking.  Something I sometimes do way to much of.  Why not , these kids that want this dope are opposed to my country anyway.  They are so much smarter than the baby boomers, that paid the taxes that built these schools and universities.  Maybe she is on to something.  Now we all know that not all these kids are doing drugs. But it must be a large percentage given the tonnage that is coming across our borders.

I’ve been reading a book titled ” Storm over Range Lands ” by Wayne Hage.  I’m going to finish it today. But what I have learned so far is that we live in a East vs. West  country.  The east coast so called elites, then (1860- 2010) just like today, want livestock and humans off the land west of the 100th meridian.  Years ago 2002, the forest service did everything they could to allow the Rodeo/Chediski fire to destroy much of the White mountains. They wanted humans to leave the area and if the fire hadn’t died of its own accord, they would have succeeded.  In this book it is obvious that the forest service , under the influence of the sierra club, going back to the early 1900′s had  one agenda.  Clear the west of livestock and humans. They even had a phrase years ago that went like this ” Animals free by 93″ . It appears that now the southeastern states are their next target.

Here is my point. Until states all across this country, ban together and force this federal government back to its chartered constitutional duties and nothing more. We will continue to live in tyranny such as we are seeing today.  If there is any doubt that the in action in the gulf by this government is not tyranny , then we are all dumber than a box of rocks.

The link below  illustrates without any doubt, where the problem exists.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

And this from World Net Daily: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=165633

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June 25, 2010

Open Letter to Governor Brewer

Filed under: My Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 5:28 pm

Governor Brewer:

This morning I read your article in the paper.  Here’s an idea. Take an hour out of your campaigning day, and do what your charged to do. Be the Commander-in-Chief of the Great State of Arizona.  Forget obama, he’s not coming, he  has no paperwork.  Put out a call for volunteers to develop and deploy the state militia we are ready.  Instruct the Border Patrol to return to the border fence and no more than one mile inside the border. Send the Armed State Guard to the border to back up the Border Patrol .  Locate two General Aviation aircraft equipped with RC-9 or -10 cameras with gps link, deploy them to the border and mountain ridges, identify the location of repeaters with freq finding technology. Send in the Huey’s with gunners and take them out. Use the militia to mop up.  You are at war , and the longer you fool around using  this issue as a campaign tool, the more people are going to get killed or worse. We are at WAR! We have been invaded by a foreign threat.  Your sworn duty is to protect the Sovereignty of the State of Arizona. The citizens of Arizona are under imminent threat.   We need a Commander-in-Chief  in Arizona, it’s for certain we don’t have one in the District of Columbia. You want to be the leader of a Sovereign state? prove it.

 

June 21, 2010

Talk is cheap Sen Kyl, you and McCain have failed. The United States Gives up its border, to criminals.

Filed under: My Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 9:41 pm

 

On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”  (Did he really have to tell you this?) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qv_zjGTs9E&feature=player_embedded

Here’s the question. Where was Kyl during the bush years? Why didnt he have this meeting with eljorge .  What about this fella mcCain, all of a sudden he wants a fence and troops.  In2007 he wanted to give them all an American Express Card.

Heres a fact , for you Coolaid Drinking Republicans. McCain and Kyl are messing with your heads. They both know that there is no intention of this administration just as there was no intention of the previous administration to secure the border.  I’ll bet Rush is all over this conversation between kyl and obama.  But where was Rush during those bush open borders, unarmed guardsmen, sandwich maker years.  I’ll bet there are a couple of legislators down at the rental units that are having a cow about now.  For you republicrats, thats those three former taxpayer owned  buildings that the state managed to get a HELOC on. 

Its time to bring these senators back to the accountability of the states and the state legislators.  Both of these Arizona Senators should be run out of town on a rail.  Both of them have failed this state and this country.

Sen. Kyl also said he reminded President Obama that the President and the Congress have an obligation, a duty, to secure the border. ( Did he remind bush of the same thing?) Obama is not going to secure the border, bush didnt why should he?  Thats how this occupant in the White House thinks.  He’s just following bush’s lead.

Click on the links to see the meeting with the Tea Party, no one there challenged kyl.  Makes my hair hurt. Kyl says they are going to the border.  If you think for one minute that they would be going down there , short of an election your kidding yourselves.  This is just another example of why we need to get lawyers out of elected offices. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpyrlX52TwA&feature=player_embedded

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June 19, 2010

Our Economic View from Pravda

Filed under: My Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 1:14 am

The final collapse has come with the election of Barrack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

Do you think this is all by accident? http://www.youtube.com/v/kHxb_vZe7A

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June 15, 2010

Reagan’s Folly American Nightmare

Filed under: My Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 6:19 pm

 

No decision in the history of America , by a sitting president has caused more harm to the American way of life that the one made by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.  And what it set in motion will have to be dealt with one way or another in the next couple of years.  Our only way out of this mess is thru the states. The federal government is dysfunctional and unwilling to do what is best for this country. Due either to self-serving through political greed or financial greed.  There are now 44 million illegals living in the country. Do the math. Not  to mention the 3 million Reagan gave amnesty to in 1986.  I and tens of thousands of Americans opposed Reagan’s action.  However then, just as now the leadership of our country do not listen to their constituents they listen to the  party bosses, the big money, the people politicians give voice to.  As voters it would seem that its time we start thinking out of the box.  In other words maybe its time we took a whole new approach to who we elect. Frankly I would rather have Joe the Plummer in the White House today than this fella obama. Expecially now that we have a plumming problem. “Sorry I had to go there”.

Now we have an election coming.  Our Governor here in Arizona has found a issue that has propelled her in the polls. Great , better late than never. My question is , what would she be doing if there were no election in her face. Much  like the phony Mccain, hollering about the fence.  Three years ago he was wanting to give every illegal alien American Express card.  Now thanks to Jim Deakin and JD Hayworth ,McCain is down on the border sucking up to the country sheriffs(And interesting enough, they are buying McCains phony blather). 

As a candidate my self for Governor of Arizona, I’ve learned a lot about Arizona politics.  As a Conservative Libertarian, I’ve discovered that some of the same problems that the Republican party has the Libertarian party has likewise.  For example: Jim Deakins is running for the Senate, but the party and the media has all but scratched his name of the list.  Having met Jim on several occasions and had discussions with him, I know  he would make a great Senator for Arizona.  And we both agree on building the fence on the border and budget issues.

In my case the Libertarian Party in Arizona, seems to be a private club , at least at the so-called leadership level.  And some have indicated publically that I have hijacked the party. That seems odd to me , because first they know nothing about me. And second here is a party that could play a major role in state and federal policy matters if they weren’t so afraid of losing control of their playpen.

  We as Americans must look at the long view. We elect politicians that run around telling their  audience what they want to hear.  Ive had several folks come up to me after an event and  tell me ,  “Its time someone talked about these issues” .  Recently I did 30 minutes on the contamination  in our food supply. One lady said to me ” I had no idea” . This is an issue Ive been aware of since I left the farm in 1964.  If you want an eye opener , read David Kirby’s book ” Animal Factories” .

Anyway , the long term down the road negative consequences of this federal government going back to Woodrow Wilson , thru Reagan, Carter, Bush,Clinton,Bush and now this puppet on a string obama. Can be fixed. But only if future Governors are willing to work together to end the federal governments meddling in affairs they are not qualified to deal with, such as the fiasco down  in the Gulf of Mexico. 

If we mess up the 2010 elections. America will be bankrupt in5 years.  The state of Arizona will be 10 billion in debt , due to governments inability to unwind the last six years of growth on a false economy.  Our agriculture and manufacturing industries will be all but destroyed.  The health of our nations population will continue to decline due to the CAFO problems and lack of rural agriculture.  Manufacturing and Tech jobs will be all but gone to overseas markets.   We literally have no time to waste.  We have a window , and its right now to fix these issues. Who ever does it must be willing to take the temporary blowback from those running around with their hand out or agenda’s such as LaRAZA/Obama.

The federal and state governments are the sole problem as far as getting our economies moving again. We will never see 2006 again and we dont want to. We need state banking reform and we need it now.  Ive yet to hear any candidate running for Governor here in the state even hint at that issue.

What Reagan tried to do below , failed , it failed then  and it will fail again if we go there.  We have 308 million people in this country that can no longer feed itself.  There has been a email going around about , how the Bilderbergers have a plan to eliminate 50 million Americans. The question is will you be one of them? And did Reagan’s Folly have anything to do with their plan?

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Comments Reagan Would Not Repeat Amnesty Mistake by Edwin Meese III 12/13/2006 This is the fifth in an occasional series of exclusive articles in which leading conservatives who served in the Reagan Administration explain how they believe the principles of Reagan conservatism ought to be applied today and in the coming years. This week, Edwin Meese, who was Reagan’s first presidential counselor and then attorney general, addresses immigration. ——————————————————————————– What would Ronald Reagan do? I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked that question, on virtually every issue imaginable. As much as we all want clarity and certainty, I usually refrain from specific answers. That’s because it is very difficult to directly translate particular political decisions to another context, in another time. The better way to answer the question—and the way President Reagan himself would approach such questions—is to understand Reagan’s principles and how they should apply in today’s politics, and review past decisions and consider what lessons they have for us. Immigration is one area where Reagan’s principles can guide us, and the lessons are instructive. I was attorney general two decades ago during the debate over what became the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. President Reagan, acting on the recommendation of a bipartisan task force, supported a comprehensive approach to the problem of illegal immigration, including adjusting the status of what was then a relatively small population. Since the Immigration and Naturalization Service was then in the Department of Justice, I had the responsibility for directing the implementation of that plan. President Reagan set out to correct the loss of control at our borders. Border security and enforcement of immigration laws would be greatly strengthened—in particular, through sanctions against employers who hired illegal immigrants. If jobs were the attraction for illegal immigrants, then cutting off that option was crucial. He also agreed with the legislation in adjusting the status of immigrants—even if they had entered illegally—who were law-abiding long-term residents, many of whom had children in the United States. Illegal immigrants who could establish that they had resided in America continuously for five years would be granted temporary resident status, which could be upgraded to permanent residency after 18 months and, after another five years, to citizenship. It wasn’t automatic. They had to pay application fees, learn to speak English, understand American civics, pass a medical exam and register for military selective service. Those with convictions for a felony or three misdemeanors were ineligible. If this sounds familiar, it’s because these are pretty much the same provisions included in the Comprehensive Reform Act of 2006, which its supporters claim is not amnesty. In the end, slight differences in process do not change the overriding fact that the 1986 law and the recent Senate legislation both include an amnesty. The difference is that President Reagan called it for what it was. Lesson of 1986 The lesson from the 1986 experience is that such an amnesty did not solve the problem. There was extensive document fraud, and the number of people applying for amnesty far exceeded projections. And there was a failure of political will to enforce new laws against employers. After a brief slowdown, illegal immigration returned to high levels and continued unabated, forming the nucleus of today’s large population of illegal aliens. So here we are, 20 years later, having much the same debate and being offered much the same deal. What would President Reagan do? For one thing, he would not repeat the mistakes of the past, including those of his own administration. He knew that secure borders are vital, and would now insist on meeting that priority first. He would seek to strengthen the enforcement of existing immigration laws. He would employ new tools—like biometric technology for identification, and cameras, sensors and satellites to monitor the border—that make enforcement and verification less onerous and more effective. One idea President Reagan had at the time that we might also try improving on is to create a pilot program that would allow genuinely temporary workers to come to the United States—a reasonable program consistent with security and open to the needs and dynamics of our market economy. And what about those already here? Today it seems to me that the fair policy, one that will not encourage further illegal immigration, is to give those here illegally the opportunity to correct their status by returning to their country of origin and getting in line with everyone else. This, along with serious enforcement and control of the illegal inflow at the border—a combination of incentives and disincentives—will significantly reduce over time our population of illegal immigrants. Lastly, we should remember Reagan’s commitment to the idea that America must remain open and welcoming to those yearning for freedom. As a nation based on ideas, Ronald Reagan believed that that there was something unique about America and that anyone, from anywhere, could become an American. That means that while we seek to meet the challenge of illegal immigration, we must keep open the door of opportunity by preserving and enhancing our heritage of legal immigration—assuring that those who choose to come here permanently become Americans. In the end, it was his principled policy—and it should be ours—to “humanely regain control of our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people: American citizenship.” ——————————————————————————– Mr. Meese served as counselor to the President and attorney general in the Reagan Administration and is editor of “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” ——————————————————————————–

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