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[Magnus <stinkfart AT gmail.com>]

On 1/25/06, DSanner106 AT aol.com <DSanner106 AT aol.com> wrote:
>
> The first job of our Gov. is to protect us, and  this is a Known
> enemy.


We're speaking primarily of the chief executive, I think, and his oath is
most certainly not to protect the people.  The oath that he has broken goes
more like this:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

I remind everyone, we do not live in a Democracy.  Democracy is a step away
from Socialism, which is another step away from Communism.  Democracy is mob
rule.  We live in a Republic.

This push towards democracy (or even skipping straight to outright
socialism) is a big part of what has been fouling up this country terribly
since at least WW2, if not earlier.

In a Republic, our elected officials are supposed to govern according to the
law (with the Constitution trumping any laws that congress craps out short
of a Constitutional amendment, let alone any executive order).

In a Republic, we have the rule of law.

In a Democracy, we have the rule of a majority.

In our Republic, it really doesn't matter if most people are okay with the
warrentless wiretaps.  It's against the law.  Don't like it?  Amend the
Constitution.  You'll need more than a simple majority to do that.

--
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in
the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
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