If a puddle can be called a “navigable waterway” as a pretext to exerting regulations on private property they wouldn’t otherwise have jurisdiction over, how long before political dissent is called a “mental disease”?
Blarg says: “. . . how long before political dissent is called a “mental disease”?
Not long, Blarg. Not long at all:
Racism is hot-wired into human brain, US study indicates
Source: The Australian
NEW YORK — The human brain is predisposed to racism because areas that detect ethnicity and those controlling emotion are tightly connected, with fear often the overwhelming thought. . . .
Writing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the team, led by psychologist and neuroscientist Elizabeth Phelps of New York University, claims the findings suggest it might be possible to help people manage unconscious racist behavior. . . . Anthony Harris, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist with Sydney University’s Medical School . . . agreed with the New York team’s proposition that the next step was to devise techniques to “reduce or eliminate the negative associations underlying unwanted implicit race attitudes.” (Emphasis added.)
We already know that disagreement with The One, with Eric Holder, or with any liberal black politician on any issue is necessarily RAAACIST!! (Conservative blacks be crazy. Go ahead and vilify them.) If you refuse to purchase “treatment” to help you “manage” this “mental illness,” there is no Constitutional limit on the punitive taxes that can be imposed. Enjoy your Brave New World!
“hot-wired” implies after-the-fact, i.e., we’re not born with it.
Here’s my after-the-fact:
I’m not filling out ANY fields in Federal forms that have to do with my private life. Nor will I comply with that law in any way, including pay a “penalty,” i.e., an additional tax.
With today’s precedent, the government will not need to classify anything as a navigable waterway or a mental disease, or anything else.
Want to own a gun? Pay a gun-owning tax. They won’t have to infringe upon that right if the tax is so prohibitively high that nobody can afford to legally own a gun.
This can also be applied to:
voting (polling tax)
speech (free speech tax)
property rights (federal property tax)
etc, etc, etc.
And if you don’t pay your taxes, you can go to prison for tax evasion. Yup, the government cannot constitutionally deny you your rights, but they can tax them so heavily, you won’t be able to exercise them. I’m not saying that will happen…but the Supreme Court won’t stop it if it does.
Jimmy, for the past 3 censi (censuses? whatever) I got the long census form. I filled out how many people lived in my household and ignored all the other questions. A census is a count of the people. The only Constitutional reason for the census was to apportion representation. Every other question on that census form is unconstitutional and an invasion of privacy. It isn’t the government’s damned business if I have a telephone or a flush toilet or any thing else; so I don’t answer those questions. Only once has a census worker contacted me to try and collect the information I did not give, and I told her what I just told you guys. She did not bother me again.
The Tree of Liberty is clearly in need of an Arborist. In order to save said Tree, drastic pruning must take place by the first week of November lest it be left to die a slow, tortuous, smothering death.
I pray that God will save this old tree. Weathered and weary though it may be, it has stood the test of time and been fertilized lo, too many times by the Life Blood of Heroes.
Do we now give up, or do we embrace said Tree and shore her up yet again?
Me? I’m ready to hug me the Hell outta said Special Tree.
Tim
Ogrrre – I gave short-form answers to the long form census in 2010. Had a census worker come to my door. After she’d gotten out the “I’m from the census…” part, I looked her square in the eye, said “No.” and closed the door.
She left, and that was the end of it.
Although I suppose now I’m in some sort of “special” government database as a dangerous right-wing lunatic
The most dangerous time in American history will be between Nov. 7, 2012 and Jan. 20, 2013.
What the outgoing wackjobs tried to accomplish in the lame-duck session of 2011, after their shellacking in November 2010 was only a foretaste of their desperation and spite after they realize they’ve lost the presidency And the senate.
“Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Rev. 12:12
Harvey, I was thinking along the lines of unconstitutional executive orders, martial law, suspension of civil liberties and riots in the streets, but I could be wrong.
all I’m saying is that if Obama has a plan to disarm law-abiding American citizens, he’d better get on with it.
I think I’m going to go play some Ted Nugent while I work.
The tree is in Colorado.
If a puddle can be called a “navigable waterway” as a pretext to exerting regulations on private property they wouldn’t otherwise have jurisdiction over, how long before political dissent is called a “mental disease”?
Blarg – how long until Obama institutes a “didn’t get screened for mental diseases” tax?
Harvey – about 10 minutes after he gets SCOTUS to throw out the 2nd Amendment as “unconstitutional”
There’s still a tree in the Soviet State of Washington.
It has been looking thirsty since Roosevelt was elected.
Now you’re talking.
Ooooh, Liberty! I read about that once in history class!
I guess that kinda depends on what happens between now in January 21st, doesn’t it?
Crabby Old Bat, It must not have been an American public school history class…they haven’t taught about liberty in years.
Not long, Blarg. Not long at all:
We already know that disagreement with The One, with Eric Holder, or with any liberal black politician on any issue is necessarily RAAACIST!! (Conservative blacks be crazy. Go ahead and vilify them.) If you refuse to purchase “treatment” to help you “manage” this “mental illness,” there is no Constitutional limit on the punitive taxes that can be imposed. Enjoy your Brave New World!
@Son of Bob #11: Quite right it wasn’t public school. I was properly indoctrinated in parochial schools. Elementary school motto: Character counts!
“hot-wired” implies after-the-fact, i.e., we’re not born with it.
Here’s my after-the-fact:
I’m not filling out ANY fields in Federal forms that have to do with my private life. Nor will I comply with that law in any way, including pay a “penalty,” i.e., an additional tax.
Hey Congress! Go suck it.
With today’s precedent, the government will not need to classify anything as a navigable waterway or a mental disease, or anything else.
Want to own a gun? Pay a gun-owning tax. They won’t have to infringe upon that right if the tax is so prohibitively high that nobody can afford to legally own a gun.
This can also be applied to:
voting (polling tax)
speech (free speech tax)
property rights (federal property tax)
etc, etc, etc.
And if you don’t pay your taxes, you can go to prison for tax evasion. Yup, the government cannot constitutionally deny you your rights, but they can tax them so heavily, you won’t be able to exercise them. I’m not saying that will happen…but the Supreme Court won’t stop it if it does.
The Tree of Liberty looks parched.
The Left had best worry that the backlash isn’t so great that we decide to take care of it hydroponically.
Or would that be “sanguiponically”?
Jimmy, for the past 3 censi (censuses? whatever) I got the long census form. I filled out how many people lived in my household and ignored all the other questions. A census is a count of the people. The only Constitutional reason for the census was to apportion representation. Every other question on that census form is unconstitutional and an invasion of privacy. It isn’t the government’s damned business if I have a telephone or a flush toilet or any thing else; so I don’t answer those questions. Only once has a census worker contacted me to try and collect the information I did not give, and I told her what I just told you guys. She did not bother me again.
The Tree of Liberty is clearly in need of an Arborist. In order to save said Tree, drastic pruning must take place by the first week of November lest it be left to die a slow, tortuous, smothering death.
I pray that God will save this old tree. Weathered and weary though it may be, it has stood the test of time and been fertilized lo, too many times by the Life Blood of Heroes.
Do we now give up, or do we embrace said Tree and shore her up yet again?
Me? I’m ready to hug me the Hell outta said Special Tree.
Tim
Ha! Tree-hugger Timmy! 😀
Ogrrre – I gave short-form answers to the long form census in 2010. Had a census worker come to my door. After she’d gotten out the “I’m from the census…” part, I looked her square in the eye, said “No.” and closed the door.
She left, and that was the end of it.
Although I suppose now I’m in some sort of “special” government database as a dangerous right-wing lunatic
The most dangerous time in American history will be between Nov. 7, 2012 and Jan. 20, 2013.
What the outgoing wackjobs tried to accomplish in the lame-duck session of 2011, after their shellacking in November 2010 was only a foretaste of their desperation and spite after they realize they’ve lost the presidency And the senate.
“Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Rev. 12:12
4of7 – I don’t think the lame ducks will try anything. The GOP still has the House, which is enough to stop any legislation.
I don’t think the lame ducks will try anything. The GOP still has the House, which is enough to stop any legislation.
And they’ve been doing a bang up job, Harvey.
Harvey, I was thinking along the lines of unconstitutional executive orders, martial law, suspension of civil liberties and riots in the streets, but I could be wrong.