Reader Ken adds to Judge Napolitano’s list of “what ifs”:
What if Fox were really, “fair and balanced”?
What if a large percentage of the military realized their oath is to the Constitution rather than their superiors or even the President?
What if enough of us believe the 10th Amendment is still relevant?
What if We the People began living as though, “In God We Trust” were more than just words?
What if the feds would decide to let the South go its own way peacefully this time?
What if true Liberty could be given just one more chance to exist on the faceof the Earth?
How about other readers submitting their own “what ifs?” I will collect them and publish the better ones. Send them in.
What if Fox were really, “fair and balanced”? —– who cares
What if a large percentage of the military realized their oath is to the Constitution rather than their superiors or even the President? —- the military is a paid military, bring the draft back and the entire answer changes, but for now they answer as an employee to the employer.
What if enough of us believe the 10th Amendment is still relevant?——- It would inhibit integration. Some states would not be tolerable.
What if We the People began living as though, “In God We Trust” were more than just words? —- Wouldn’t work everybody puts a different hat on their God.
What if the feds would decide to let the South go its own way peacefully this time? — What race would the slaves be?
What if true Liberty could be given just one more chance to exist on the faceof the Earth? —- One mans liberty is another mans infringement.
I care about Fox. At least I did until the day they fired the Judge.
The military is not an employee-employer relationship. I spent much of my adult life in uniform and have held several civilian jobs both prior and since. None of the civilian jobs had as a condition of employment the requirement to take a sacred oath to protect and defend the Constitution or anything else.
So you apparently do not support the Constitution including the 10th Amendment. The relationship of States to Federal is as creator to created. The feds Constitutionally are limited in their just responsibilities and powers and the States are supposed (originally were) superior and quite different one from another. If one State were not “tolerable” to you, you would be free to move to a tolerable State as was originally intended by the States which ratified the Constitution.
Not even close to true. This nation (and indeed the original separate and sovereign States) were founded on Christian principles. It was widely recognized that the Creator who granted us our “unalienable rights” deals with nations as well as indviduals. So while provision for individuals to be free to deny the Creator Himself, there was no allowance for disputing the principles themselves. Your god may wear a different hat than mine but the foundation of our government was based on the instructions for living handed down by my God.
Are you historically challenged or just a product of today’s public indoctrination centers? The War for Southern Independence-often incorrectly referred to as a Civil War- did not originate over the issue of slavery but rather the principle of the supremacy of the States over the federal government. The outcome is a prime example of why might does not make right and Lincoln’s evisceration of the Constitution was a giant leap foward in the decline of our Republic.
Sigh. So little time, so much ignorance. True Liberty is the freedom to act as I see fit up to the point that it infringes on your Liberty. The most common example given being that my right to swing my fist stops short of your nose. One man cannot- as you said- act within the limits of his rightful Liberty and infringe on another. To put it in a Christian context, citizens should be at Liberty to act according to their conscience and the moral dictates of the founding principles. Not quite what we have today with the feds interfering with every aspect of our lives. Some egregious examples being I am “lawfully” required to help fund the murder of unborn children, fund public schools which teach immorality is normal and forced to contribute to the welfare state as if the Constitution authorized some level of federal charity. I urge you to read a short book titled, “The Law” by Frederic Bastiat.
What if the gov’t started spying on its citizens and tried to remove free speech?
What if the gov’t encouraged and instilled hatred of fellow citizens through class warfare, racism. sexism and treated different citizens differently based on group association rather than seeing people as people regardless of color, class, gender or religion?
What if the gov’t chose to attack one religion while giving another protected status, even if members of that religion have iopenly declared war of the country?
What of every child in any newborn nursery in any city in the country owed the gov’t $105,000 at LEAST top pay for gov’t debt and excess?
What if the president spent millions on lavish vacations while telling the rest that it’s time we sacrifice for the good of the country?
What if the gov’t protected immoral behavior and moral decay while attacking those whose values would be considered moral by thousands of generations of humanity in virtually every society throughout history?
What if the gov’t said the peaceful protestors were a threat while violent, feral, fecal ridden protestors were labeled as heroes?
What if the gov’t spent trillions of dollars of private citizens property on a war on crime, a war on drugs, and public education, but every sinlge one of those categories actually regressed substantially by all metric measurements?
What if the single biggest profiteer on a gallon of gas was the gov’t but the company that put up the capital to provide energy to the country was demonized?
What if the government had to constantly change the methods it used to report data because the numbers were too bad to let the public see the truth?
What if half the country paid no taxes, but the gov’t told us the problem was that those who do, aren’t paying their fair share?
What if the president was Constitutionally ineligible, he sealed his entire past, released forged documents to hide the truth, and the country did nothing in response?
What if all academic centers, especially those of higher learning, were full of professors whose agenda was to indoctrinate students into believing that government was the solution to all problems, rather than the cause?
What if the gov’t created laws that gave certain citizens priviledged status merely because of the color of their skin?
What if the gov’t went so far in debt at every level that it could never be re-paid and the only solution was sovereign bankruptcy?
What if the gov’t made us more dependent on hostile foreign nations for domestic energy while simultaneously telling its citizens we need to be energy independent?
What if the gov’t purposefully devalued its currency to re-pay the debt it could not do through conventional means?
What if the gov’t never cut its bloated spending to solve a debt crisis, but rather chose to forcibly take more property away from its citizens as its only solution?
What if the gov’t created a regulatory environment so hostile to business, that it would be cheaper for businesses to set up offices half way around the world rather than stay at home?
What if the gov’t took over businesses, ignored hundreds of years of contract law in the process, the propped up a business with tax dollars just to buy votes from unionized labor?
What if the gov’t supported fraudulent science to push an economic agenda that could not survive on its own accord?
What if the gov’t chose to protect the criminals and criminalize the victims, even though defending themselves from certain death?