Current or modern politics in the United States

[Arturo2nd]

The recent falls from grace of Generals David Petraeus and Michael Flynn gives credence to the caricature of military men as not being very bright. It is strange, because I have met men, including a general and an admiral, who struck me as being quite intelligent. But many of these men wound up being forced out of the military by being passed over for promotion or barely surviving until events provided a stage to show their worth. Peace time military politicians have rarely proven to be effective combat leaders. Is there something in our military structure that conspires to force the brightest and most creative officers out and advance mediocrities to the top rank?

This is not a new thought. I am reminded of General Henry Halleck's efforts to get rid of U.S.Grant. Abraham Lincoln had to intervene saying "I cannot spare this man. He fights."

[vannax]

Originally Posted by Brian249x

The 14th Amendment has a special history. It was ratified by the northern states and the states of the former Confederacy were forced to ratify it as a condition to their representatives being accepted into Congress. It alters several sections of the original Constitution. Argue all you want, it is now the law of the land in the United States.

Are you aware that there is a special bar for attorneys allowed to argue cases before the Supreme Court? Might I suggest that you refrain from commenting on constitutional law until you have been admitted to that bar.

Yes, as I said, not properly ratified. As everybody knows, contracts signed under duress are null and void.

[vannax]

Originally Posted by Brian249x

The recent falls from grace of Generals David Petraeus and Michael Flynn gives credence to the caricature of military men as not being very bright. It is strange, because I have met men, including a general and an admiral, who struck me as being quite intelligent. But many of these men wound up being forced out of the military by being passed over for promotion or barely surviving until events provided a stage to show their worth. Peace time military politicians have rarely proven to be effective combat leaders. Is there something in our military structure that conspires to force the brightest and most creative officers out and advance mediocrities to the top rank?

This is not a new thought. I am reminded of General Henry Halleck's efforts to get rid of U.S.Grant. Abraham Lincoln had to intervene saying "I cannot spare this man. He fights."

What we are witnessing is a slow-motion coup d'etat, orchestrated by connected globalist commies, carried out by intelligence agencies, and aided and abetted by the enemedia.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-trumps-calls/

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...s-next-target/

[HugoHackenbush]

1. Admission to the Supreme Court Bar is largely a formality. You only have to show you have been admitted to practice law before your State's highest Court for the preceding three years and have not been subject to dscipline during that time.
2. Contracts signed under duress are not automatically null and void. Otherwise everyone would claim that.
3. For good measure being drunk is not good grounds for voiding a contract either.

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by vannax

Yes, as I said, not properly ratified. As everybody knows, contracts signed under duress are null and void.

In my opinion we were far too lenient with the leaders of the rebellion. Lengthy prison terms, at least were in order. The penalty for treason at the time was death. So, it would have been quite legal to hang Jefferson Davis and other instigators of the death and destruction which followed. Confiscating the plantations of the large slave holders and distributing the land to their former slaves probably would have accelerated the assimilation of the former slaves and prevented the enduring poverty and polarization which continues to plague us.

The losers in the civil wars of other nations received much harsher treatment. After the Confederate insurrection only Jefferson Davis was held for two years on charges of plotting Lincoln's murder and was later charged with treason. The case never went to trial, because President Andrew Johnson pardoned everyone who participated in the rebellion in 1868. (Up yours Radical Republicans who voted to impeached me.) Poor Henry Wirz, the commander of the prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia was executed in 1865 after being convicted for war crimes on the basis of perjured testimony.

I see no duress in the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. The states that had declared war on the federal government were perfectly free to remain under martial law until some other arrangements were made. The Fourteenth Amendment provided a means for all the former government officials and soldiers who had violated their oaths to defend the Constitution to have their rights restored. Otherwise, governments would have to of been formed with former slaves and poor whites in positions of power, as indeed they were under the Radical Republicans Reconstruction plan. Twelve years after the war ended, political power was back in the hands of the large landholders in the South and the gains of the freedmen rolled back.

I would suggest folks refer to the Articles of Confederation where the states had agreed to "a perpetual union." The Constitution that superseded the Articles had no provision for dissolution, only ratification. The implication being that any state that did not wish to remain in perpetual union ought not ratify the Constitution. All states admitted after ratification were formed from territorial possessions of the United States, with the exception of Texas. Thus, none of the former territories admitted as states had any express or implied right to leave the union. Texas petitioned to join the United States because it was bankrupt. So, Texas agreed to the U.S. Constitution in exchange for the United States paying its debts. I understand that Texas acquired the unique right in the annexation treaty to split itself into smaller states, which is prohibited to other states by the constitution. But once Texas was admitted to the United states it forfeited its independence. (The advocates of forming a new state of "Jefferson" from part of northern California appear to be unfamiliar with the our Constitution.)

P.S. Please don't try to cite breitbart.com as a legitimate authority unless you are also willing to grant the same credence to thinkprogress.org.

[Devius]

Jeez....

Michael Moore says Hillary Clinton should be President or there should be a re-run after Trump-Russia 'fraud'

Michael Moore has made an impassioned plea for Donald Trump to stand down and America to hold another election.

'Our judicial system has to find a way to make restitution to this country. Pence can't be president as he, too, was elected under this same fraud,' says documentary maker.

Details:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7584376.html

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by Devius

Jeez....

Michael Moore says Hillary Clinton should be President or there should be a re-run after Trump-Russia 'fraud'

Michael Moore has made an impassioned plea for Donald Trump to stand down and America to hold another election.

'Our judicial system has to find a way to make restitution to this country. Pence can't be president as he, too, was elected under this same fraud,' says documentary maker.

Kyrie Irving and Wilson Chandler believe that we have been duped and the world is really flat.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/...actually-round

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Brian249x

Kyrie Irving and Wilson Chandler believe that we have been duped and the world is really flat.

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/...actually-round

But the world is flat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAjQdeyiHc

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Devius

Jeez....

Michael Moore says Hillary Clinton should be President or there should be a re-run after Trump-Russia 'fraud'

Michael Moore has made an impassioned plea for Donald Trump to stand down and America to hold another election.

'Our judicial system has to find a way to make restitution to this country. Pence can't be president as he, too, was elected under this same fraud,' says documentary maker.

Details:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7584376.html

Michael Moore and others of his ilk, the ones who think that the verdict of the electorate at the ballot box must be a mistake because they disagree with it, would do well to read Robert Burns.

If but the power guid God could gi'e us
To see ourselves as others see us.

[vannax]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

But the world is flat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAjQdeyiHc

Not only is the world flat, but the orbits of all the planets are straight lines. It's easily confirmed by simply checking with surveying equipment.