"(2) there must be accountability for past violations, to teach government actors a lesson and discourage future actors from similar excesses"
I think this is the most important line in the whole piece. I've long felt that the Constitution has one humongous hole: a lack of consequences for violating its protections. Governors across th…
"(2) there must be accountability for past violations, to teach government actors a lesson and discourage future actors from similar excesses"
I think this is the most important line in the whole piece. I've long felt that the Constitution has one humongous hole: a lack of consequences for violating its protections. Governors across this country have violated our rights repeatedly and the worst thing that ever happens is their dictates get overturned. So the people suffer until the court acts, and those who caused the suffering whistle Dixie and strategize about how to do the same without running afoul of the judiciary.
As great as our Constitution is, it's really a toothless tiger.
In the present context, what you say seems so. No accountability means certainty of horrendous acts down the line. And even if we win of covid/mandates and absent prosecutions, 'they' the Cretins That Be are certain to up the ante and to overwhelm with something even more horrific. And do it with terror that overwhelms and stampedes the cattle into trampling all within their path. No prosecution and what do we truly win?
On the other hand, standing up for what is right and good exposes. Doing that continually and eventually we win something. The great unanswered question is ... At What Cost! And because we are in new territory on a Global level, any answer is uncertain. And yet, the desire to live a normal life burn like a hot coal in my soul. It is something within which cannot be extinguished.
The New Certainty is Uncertainty. However, in this, Christians of the old kind have only one way to act. Christian must always fight Evil ... and never accede to it.
Actually there are many spelled out punishments for violating the constitution. And there isn't one prosecutor with the balls to begin charging people with things like treason.
Can you point them out? I honestly have never heard of anyone ever being penalized for violating the Constitution. Are there Federal statutes that spell out penalties?
Oh I don't know that there are any examples I can point to, of people prosecuted for violating the constitution. I was just making the point that there are punishments to be meted out in the event that one does. Like Joe Biden should be in prison awaiting his execution for treason as we speak. Prove me wrong.
"(2) there must be accountability for past violations, to teach government actors a lesson and discourage future actors from similar excesses"
I think this is the most important line in the whole piece. I've long felt that the Constitution has one humongous hole: a lack of consequences for violating its protections. Governors across this country have violated our rights repeatedly and the worst thing that ever happens is their dictates get overturned. So the people suffer until the court acts, and those who caused the suffering whistle Dixie and strategize about how to do the same without running afoul of the judiciary.
As great as our Constitution is, it's really a toothless tiger.
In the present context, what you say seems so. No accountability means certainty of horrendous acts down the line. And even if we win of covid/mandates and absent prosecutions, 'they' the Cretins That Be are certain to up the ante and to overwhelm with something even more horrific. And do it with terror that overwhelms and stampedes the cattle into trampling all within their path. No prosecution and what do we truly win?
On the other hand, standing up for what is right and good exposes. Doing that continually and eventually we win something. The great unanswered question is ... At What Cost! And because we are in new territory on a Global level, any answer is uncertain. And yet, the desire to live a normal life burn like a hot coal in my soul. It is something within which cannot be extinguished.
The New Certainty is Uncertainty. However, in this, Christians of the old kind have only one way to act. Christian must always fight Evil ... and never accede to it.
Actually there are many spelled out punishments for violating the constitution. And there isn't one prosecutor with the balls to begin charging people with things like treason.
Can you point them out? I honestly have never heard of anyone ever being penalized for violating the Constitution. Are there Federal statutes that spell out penalties?
Oh I don't know that there are any examples I can point to, of people prosecuted for violating the constitution. I was just making the point that there are punishments to be meted out in the event that one does. Like Joe Biden should be in prison awaiting his execution for treason as we speak. Prove me wrong.