God speaks to you more clearly when you have a gun on your hip and the Constitution in your pocket

[tencats]

Here's an editorial worth reading:
written by Ron Eachus of Salem,OR. He is a former legislator and a former chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission.

What you can do with a gun and copy of the Constitution

With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can become a legal scholar and enforce your own interpretation of the Constitution. You can ignore the history of court decisions and language of laws and profess superior knowledge of what the Constitution says.

With a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, the fact the Supreme Court has twice determined the federal government has incontrovertible claim to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge lands is irrelevant.

You don’t need a Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution because you have a gun on your hip and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket.

When you have a gun on your hip, a rifle over your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, you can take over public lands in a remote area that has more cattle than people, even when the people you say you’re trying to assist don’t want you there.

The two ranchers you’re trying to free, peacefully reported for their sentence and repudiated you. The community says it doesn’t agree with what you’re doing and doesn’t want you there. The local sheriff says “go home” and offers safe escort. The Paiute tribe that occupied the land well before any ranchers says “get off our land.” County officials won’t even let you use the fairgrounds for an assembly so you can explain the benefit of your presence.

But you have a gun on your hip, a rifle on your shoulder and a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, so you’ll stay until they understand how much you’re doing for them.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/ron-eachus/2016/01/19/can-gun-copy-constitution/78976534/

[smirkymonkey]

1. God doesn't speak to anybody.

It's only delusional right wing fundies w/ severe mental illness that think god speaks to them.

[Facility Inspector]

4. delusional right wing GRIFTERS

who use peoples' stupidity to get what they want.

[enough]

2. He could leave out the parts about the Constitution. It's all about the gun. (nt)

[TeamPooka]

5. The Constitution empowers the gun owners. nt

[Eleanors38]

6. Actually, it doesn't. It recognizes numerous rights, including 2A.

[TeamPooka]

11. Yes but they draw their power from it like a battery. nt

[enough]

9. But they don't need it in their pocket. They only need the gun.

Given their lack of understanding of the Constitution, having it in their pocket doesn't help them.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

3. So this is about freedom, brought to you with a gun and misinterpretation of the Constitution

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Is God telling them that He's a bit short on cash and wants them to pass the basket?

[Initech]

10. As George Carlin said - symbols for the symbol minded.

[Rex]

12. Well they don't call him Early Cuyler for no good reason.

Wait is it a good reason? Who cares this crowd ain't big on facts or longterm memory.

[Electric Monk]

13. k&r