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"...Cunningham: a constitutional amendment he sponsored to outlaw flag burning cleared the House and stands a chance of passing the Senate."
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SAN DIEGO - Even by the standards of one of the nation's hottest housing markets, Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's San Diego area home fetched an extraordinary price. Federal authorities are investigating whether the nearly $1.7 million sale was too good to be legal...
Wade, the head of a small defense firm called MZM Inc., bought Cunningham's home in the wealthy coastal community of Del Mar in November 2003 for $1.675 million. Wade put the house back on the market a short time later and it sold after nearly a year for $975,000. His $700,000 loss amounted to a 60 percent drop in the home's value during a period when the average San Diego County home price increased 25 percent.
Around the same time, little-known MZM started making lists of the nation's most successful defense contractors...
Cunningham is a member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, both of which oversee the kind of classified intelligence work Washington...
"I would never put the interests of a friend or contractor above the interests of my country,"
"I don't like the fools who burn the flag, but I will stand up and defend their rights, because not to would mean that someday someone will try to take my rights away." - Representative Alcee Hastings
"If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents." - Representative Jerrold Nadler
"I love the flag, and all it represents, but I love the Constitution even more." - Representative Christopher Shays
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Back in 1989 our Supreme Court ruled burning our American flag is a form of speech protected by our Constitution's First Amendment. This final ruling and law came about through Republicans in 1968 who attempted to squash all protests against the Vietnam War. As you know, Nixon and his Tin Soldiers went so far as to shoot students at Kent State to silence war protesters.
Besides shooting students, one of whom was a young girl simply walking across a parking lot, brown shirt politicians passed a law banning American flag burning to use as a tool to defeat our Freedom of Speech. That law led to the eventual 1989 strike down by our Supreme Court.
Today, largely Republican politicians along with a few Democrats, are now attempting to disregard the laws of our land, disregard our Constitution, by amending our Constitution to give Congress power to rule flag burning to be a crime. Will this be a capital offense? Will we again shoot students?
Strikes me Capitol Hill should be addressing the war in Iraq, addressing ways to defeat terrorism, addressing our bad economy, addressing this problem of more Americans falling into poverty. No, those are not issues of importance. What is important is teach those very few protestors who burn our American flag a hard lesson.
There have only been 175 reported incidents of flag burning in twenty years.
Capital Hill is trying to burn our Constitution. Our Supreme Court has ruled on this long back. Capital Hill is to burn our law books. What is next? Maybe a Capital Hill repeal of our First Amendment rights?
George Bush has already attempted to amend our Constitution to ban all same sex marriage. He attempted to violate our privacy rights, attempted to dictate who can love whom. He attempted to add a religious based amendment to our Constitution which violates the very principle which gave birth to our Country and Constitution; separation of church and state.
What will Capital Hill come up with next? An amendment to imprison those who refuse to pledge allegiance to our flag?
Seems a time is coming our government will soon wash and iron their old Kent State brown khaki shirts to wear for our celebration of a new, more patriotic America.
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If one lookes back through history, from it's very first beginnings, there has been an underlying "scheme" of the Republican Party. It has always sought, under various claims of some differing purpose, to destroy the stature of the constitution and deposit it's powers into the hands of an "elite" (defined by them according to whatever is popular among the well off and whatever others they can hornswaggle into voting with them), of course.
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: If one lookes back through history, from it's very first beginnings, there has been an underlying "scheme" of the Republican Party. It has always sought, under various claims of some differing purpose, to destroy the stature of the constitution and deposit it's powers into the hands of an "elite" (defined by them according to whatever is popular among the well off and whatever others they can hornswaggle into voting with them), of course.
that is the very definiton of being Republican.... that is why we have an electoral college....
BUT?
we also have a system of checks and balances to make sure that the minority can't take full control and keep it...
unfortunately?
the judicial system has come under UNFAIR attack recently in a blatant attempt to undermine the system of checks and balances so brilliantly designed by our founders....
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There are some articles out today on the Bush administration abuse of Due Process, if readers are interested in this continued degrading our our civil rights by Bush.
Bush is creating a political environment which is beginning to border "Police State" mentality.
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