Obama Tells Military To Fire On American Citizens
2013-05-07 01:47:34 UTC
Charles Osgood, the host of CBS Sunday Morning, shocked many
viewers when he introduced a segment that called for the
abolishment of the U.S. Constitution.
Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the reverence in which
most Americans hold it, Osgood asked his viewers.
He then introduced Georgetown University Professor Louis Michael
Seidman who launched into a lengthy essay bashing the Founding
Fathers and the Constitution.
Ive got a simple idea: Lets give up on the Constitution, he
said.
Seidman is a professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown. He
said Constitutional disobedience is as American as apple pie.
If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making
decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and
outdated document, he said.
The segment ended without any objections from Osgood.
(CBS News) Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the
reverence in which most Americans hold it? A view on that from
Louis Michael Seidman, Professor of Constitutional Law at
Georgetown University:
Ive got a simple idea: Lets give up on the Constitution.
I know, it sounds radical, but its really not. Constitutional
disobedience is as American as apple pie.
For example, most of our greatest Presidents Jefferson,
Lincoln, Wilson, and both Roosevelts had doubts about the
Constitution, and many of them disobeyed it when it got in their
way.
To be clear, I dont think we should give up on everything in
the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and
inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are
important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are
now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.
Unfortunately, the Constitution also contains some provisions
that are not so inspiring. For example, one allows a
presidential candidate who is rejected by a majority of the
American people to assume office. Suppose that Barack Obama
really wasnt a natural-born citizen. So what?
Constitutional obedience has a pernicious impact on our
political culture. Take the recent debate about gun control.
None of my friends can believe it, but I happen to be skeptical
of most forms of gun control.
I understand, though, thats not everyones view, and Im eager
to talk with people who disagree.
But what happens when the issue gets Constitutional-ized? Then
we turn the question over to lawyers, and lawyers do with it
what lawyers do. So instead of talking about whether gun control
makes sense in our country, we talk about what people thought of
it two centuries ago.
Worse yet, talking about gun control in terms of constitutional
obligation needlessly raises the temperature of political
discussion. Instead of a question on policy, about which
reasonable people can disagree, it becomes a test of ones
commitment to our foundational document and, so, to America
itself.
This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the
kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the
United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people
who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country
as it exists today.
If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making
decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and
outdated document.
http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2013/01/28/political-
corruption-cbs-news
--
Are you obligated as an armed civilian, to defend unarmed
liberals while you are both under fire by foreign agents of the
outlaw Obama administration?
No. Shoot the liberals immediately so they can't stab you in
the back while you are defending yourself, then return a
controlled rate of aimed fire.
viewers when he introduced a segment that called for the
abolishment of the U.S. Constitution.
Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the reverence in which
most Americans hold it, Osgood asked his viewers.
He then introduced Georgetown University Professor Louis Michael
Seidman who launched into a lengthy essay bashing the Founding
Fathers and the Constitution.
Ive got a simple idea: Lets give up on the Constitution, he
said.
Seidman is a professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown. He
said Constitutional disobedience is as American as apple pie.
If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making
decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and
outdated document, he said.
The segment ended without any objections from Osgood.
(CBS News) Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the
reverence in which most Americans hold it? A view on that from
Louis Michael Seidman, Professor of Constitutional Law at
Georgetown University:
Ive got a simple idea: Lets give up on the Constitution.
I know, it sounds radical, but its really not. Constitutional
disobedience is as American as apple pie.
For example, most of our greatest Presidents Jefferson,
Lincoln, Wilson, and both Roosevelts had doubts about the
Constitution, and many of them disobeyed it when it got in their
way.
To be clear, I dont think we should give up on everything in
the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and
inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are
important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are
now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.
Unfortunately, the Constitution also contains some provisions
that are not so inspiring. For example, one allows a
presidential candidate who is rejected by a majority of the
American people to assume office. Suppose that Barack Obama
really wasnt a natural-born citizen. So what?
Constitutional obedience has a pernicious impact on our
political culture. Take the recent debate about gun control.
None of my friends can believe it, but I happen to be skeptical
of most forms of gun control.
I understand, though, thats not everyones view, and Im eager
to talk with people who disagree.
But what happens when the issue gets Constitutional-ized? Then
we turn the question over to lawyers, and lawyers do with it
what lawyers do. So instead of talking about whether gun control
makes sense in our country, we talk about what people thought of
it two centuries ago.
Worse yet, talking about gun control in terms of constitutional
obligation needlessly raises the temperature of political
discussion. Instead of a question on policy, about which
reasonable people can disagree, it becomes a test of ones
commitment to our foundational document and, so, to America
itself.
This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the
kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the
United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people
who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country
as it exists today.
If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making
decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and
outdated document.
http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2013/01/28/political-
corruption-cbs-news
--
Are you obligated as an armed civilian, to defend unarmed
liberals while you are both under fire by foreign agents of the
outlaw Obama administration?
No. Shoot the liberals immediately so they can't stab you in
the back while you are defending yourself, then return a
controlled rate of aimed fire.