25 May 2008
Election 2008 - What are the Real Issues?
What are the issues you care about? Global Climate Change? The rising price of gas and all of the spin offs it is causing? Economic security? Global Terrorism v. loss of personal liberties? In the western States, the impact of illegal immigration?
What have the media's candidates and handlers packed for us? Thirty-to-forty-five second sound bites about personal stories that attempt to create emotional "tug". Big money backers run the campaigns and eventually they call in their favors.
What needs to be done? First, we all need to boycott the November Election. Second, we need to demand serious campaign finance reform. Third, we need to unregister from the Republicratic-Demican Party and start over. Finally, we need to read and understand the framers original intent of the foundational documents.
It starts with a few voices. The Sons of Liberty started a small flame from which a raging fire of Independence was born.
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12 May 2008
Intellectuall Honesty - Judicial Activism - Mcain
I am not posting this as a "Pro-Mcain"Piece. I am writing about Freedom and Judicial Activism. I want to make it clear that I am antiHilary and anti-Obama. Which defacto places me in the "vote for MCain Camp". I am not voting for Mcain as much as I am voting against a force that I percieve threatens liberty and our republic to a greater degree.My Friends,
We have a lot at stake in this presidential election. As a nation, we face many challenges that will require real leadership from our next president. I have said before that this election will be about the big things, not the small things, and I write to you today about one big issue in particular - the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. If one of my Democratic opponents is elected in November, you can rest assured that given the opportunity to appoint judges, they will appoint those who make law with disregard for the will of the people.
There may be at least two vacancies on the United States Supreme Court during the next presidential term. As president, I will ensure that only those judges who strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States are appointed. I will nominate judges who understand that their role is to faithfully apply the law as written, not impose their will through judicial fiat.
If you want judges who will clearly and completely adhere to the Constitution of the United States and who do not legislate from the bench to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, then I ask that you join my campaign for president today by making a financial contribution.
I am proud to have played a role in the appointment and confirmation of two great Supreme Court justices - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito I need your support now so that as your president I can nominate judges like Justices Roberts and Alito. Judges who have proven themselves worthy of our trust. Judges who take as their sole responsibility the enforcement of laws made by the people's elected representatives. Judges who can be relied upon to respect the values of the people whose rights, laws and property they are sworn to defend.
My friends, the future of our country and of the Supreme Court is at stake in this election. If either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is elected - both voted against confirming Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito - they will appoint activist judges. They will appoint judges who legislate from the bench.
I'm sure I don't have to remind you how important even one vote on the Supreme Court can be. Issues concerning states' rights, abortion, affirmative action, the Second Amendment and religious freedom have all been decided by a very slim 5-4 margin.
America needs a leader who recognizes that the people and the states should decide what's best, not the courts. In order to be that leader, I need your financial support immediately.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
John McCain
P.S. To date, my Democrat opponents have raised almost $450 million in their efforts to win the White House. Both Senators Clinton and Obama voted against confirming John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Both Senators Clinton and Obama will nominate liberal, activist judges. As your president, I will ensure that the Supreme Court protects our values. Please follow this link right away to make your donation of any amount, up to the legal limit of $4,600. Every contribution, no matter how big or small, is crucial to our efforts. Thank you.
Mcain is arguing that we shoul support his campaign financially because he will be able to nominate more conservative strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court. Is the very premise a Matrix-type fallacy?
We know the Federal and State Judiciary through it s evolution has taken on a life of its own, ignoring the principles of the founders. What of the executive branch and the legislative branches of Federal and State Government? If Senator Mcain wants to be intellectually honest he should turn the microscope on all the branches of government and examine how far they have veered from the original intent. This is to say nothing of the micro management that corporate America exercises every day on our daily lives.
Has anyone wondered why the price of gas is so high? Why the technology for alternative fuel sources has been supressed so long? The technology existed more than fifty years ago to provide vehicles than ran 100 miles per gallon and at nearly zero emmissions. Corporate America quashed the development of the technology.
Mr. Mccain Judicial Activism is just the tip of a very large iceberg. Let's be intellectually and morally honest here.