Related article: Open letter to Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor
During the past several years, I have become acquainted with the military academies in America and the very high standards held to the men and women who attend these great institutions of learning. Embedded in the set of principles held by the Air Force Academy, Naval Academy and West Point is an honor code, one which demands honesty and integrity from each individual cadet.
Without respect, there can be no leadership, and without integrity, an individual has no hope of gaining others' respect. Do the right thing and live honorably.
Should we expect the same from the Justices of our Supreme Court, this hallowed court made up of the “Guardians of Liberty”?
When Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court Justice of the United States, they issued these statements:
I believe the people of Arkansas and our nation deserve a Supreme Court Justice who is able to interpret and apply the law fairly without political favor or bias…Ensuring that a nominee meets this standard is an obligation I have sworn to uphold as a United States Senator, and moreover, is the standard that Americans expect for a lifetime appointment to our nation’s highest court.~ U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln
The concern I’ve heard most often from Arkansans regarding judicial nominees is that activist judges have no place on the highest court of the land. I agree. Time and again, Judge Sotomayor has demonstrated that she approaches cases well-studied and without bias or agenda.~ U.S. Senator Mark Pryor
Apparently, Senators Lincoln and Pryor’s standards for Supreme Court justices are not near as high as for the students of our nation’s military academies. In 2009, in Senate confirmation hearings for her Supreme Court appointment, Sonia Sotomayor stated:
I understand the individual right fully that the Supreme Court recognized in Heller. I understand how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans.
This turns out to be a blatant lie, one told many times under oath during the Senate inquiries. She repeatedly told the Senate Heller was “settled law”. One year later, her views of the Second Amendment and the Heller decision have been made public:
In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense.~ Breyer-Sotomayor-Ginsburg dissent in McDonald v. Chicago
So, in front of the Senate in 2009, she acknowledges an individual right to keep and bear arms as put forth in Heller. One year later, as an appointed Supreme Court justice, she declares (in unison with two other justices) the people of America do not have the right to defend their lives!
Sonia Sotomayor is hardly a woman of integrity. She deserves no respect, as she is surely biased and dishonest, lying under oath. She clearly has an activist agenda of disarming the people of the United States, ignoring the precedence of the Heller decision.
Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor must be held accountable for such low standards when approving Supreme Court justices. Their own integrity and honesty suffers from the result of their votes to seat Sotomayor.
Contact your senators today and demand they do their job; demand they turn down the appointment of Elena Kagan, another anti-Second Amendment activist.
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People ask me all the time ,why I am so upset with our government. I have given much consideration to the question and found that there was no one definitive answer. I have always been taught that an elected official was held in high esteem, and was above reproach. further, upon election for whatever office, they swore to uphold and defend the rights of their constituency as delegated by the Constitution.
Upon reflection, I realized that what people were really asking me to do was to declare a reason for my animosity towards ous current elected officials. Having little experience with such enterprizes, I decided to go to the most beautiful Declaration ever written.As I read, and re read it, I realized that the list of the colonial complaints, and many of mine,were one and the same against our government today!
To those of you who have ask, here is why:
1) They have refused their assent to laws,the most wholesome and necessay for the public good.
2) They have forbidden our g
2) They have forbidden our govenors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance,unless suspended in their operation until federal assent could be obtained; and when so suspended, they have utterly neglected to attend them.
3) They have called together legislative bodies at places unusual,uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their public records, for the purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with their measures.
4) They have dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness, their invasions on the rights of the people.
5)They have erected a multitude of new offices, and sent forth swarms of officers to harrass our people and eat out their substance.
6) They have affected to render the military independent of , and superior to civil power.
7) They have combined with others, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws giving their assent to their acts of pretended legislati
8) They have imposed taxes on us without our consent.
9) They are depriving us in many cases, of trial by jury with the patriot act.
10)They have taken away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.
12) They have excited domestic insurrections amoungst us and have endeavored to bring neighbor against neighbor.
13)They have plundered our seas,ravaged our coasts,bankrupt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble of terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury. A government, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define tyranny, is unfit to govern a free people.
We must , therefore, aquiesce in the necessity,which denounces our displeasure, and hold them,as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
In closing, most of this was written over two hundred
They expect us to believe their lies when they vote against the interests of Americans and they think they should be repected for putting judges in place that would destroy everything the Bill of Rights stands for. The senators who voted for Sotomayer should br voted out of office as well as each state should consider the issue of treason for them. The same should be considered for sotomayor once the Novemeber elections are over and the people have voted.
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