Rev. Jim on Judge Scalia's death & Constitutional Authority

[Rev. Jim Cunningham]

IN RESPONSE TO A PRESS RELEASE
ON THE DEATH OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SCALIA

Diana S WROTE:

He was a staunch Constitutionalist. He didn't consider the Constitution a "living breathing thing." I think the 2nd Amendment is in real jeopardy and we'll probably start having gay labeling.

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Rev. Jim RESPONDED:

The Constitution guarantees a REPUBLIC form of government, not a Theocracy, not a Democracy. Scalia violated this each time he made decisions based on his own private religious dogmas and biases. The Constitution declares liberty - it is a LIBERAL document that protects homosexuals from those like you, and Scalia betrayed that sacred Trust. God made sure that hate did not rule from the Bench. If you do not like the Constitution, if you renounce the Citizens Pledge of "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL", you are free to leave. No one is forcing you to stay here.

I do not own a firearm, but I personally believe it is the sovereign birthright of every human to arm themselves for protection in this scary world; it is abandonment of Reason to think your safety will be secured by a police force, and it is double madness to hand over authority and power over our Persons to a police force. That is not a Republic, that is a military regime. However, because the Government is the property of the People, I do not believe that it is within the Government's authority to disarm the very People who are the very authority of the Government. It is an undisputed fact that this is a Government "of the People, by the People, and for the People". We The People are the Supreme Power of the Land, tempered by the Constitution which is the Supreme Law of the Land. So, disarming the People is formidable only to tyrants.

That being said, I do not see in the 2nd Amendment anything other than that the Right to bear arms is for the sake of supporting a militia. Before our country illegally formed a 24-hour Standing Military, Citizens went about their daily lives, and in time of war they were called up to join and train and serve in a regiment from their respective State to fight. But with the exception of private hillbilly self-appointed militias created independent of The People's authority in the backwoods somewhere, we no longer bear private arms to use in the event of being called up in a militia (armed forces). Bearing private arms for a militia, and bearing arms for daily personal security, are two totally different things. In the days of the Founding Fathers, just about everyone had a fire arm of some kind. It was common sense. And when something is common sense (i.e. undisputed even by those who opposed each other in other things), who could foresee that the legitimacy of something so common sense would one day in the future be called into question? Since the dawn of time mankind only had his personal arms taken by thugs, robbers and tyrants. So, sadly, our Founding Fathers did not go out of their way to include in the 2nd Amendment "...AND for personal protection against threats foreign and domestic". So, as a LITERAL interpretation of the Constitution, Right to bear private arms for private safety is not specifically enumerated.

HOWEVER, though the Declaration of Independence is not part of the Constitution (the Supreme Law of the Land), it IS a "unanimous declaration" to the whole world by the American States United, stipulating and declaring by what authority and power we renounce and cast of the rule of Great Britain and proclaim ourselves Sovereign, and it details the powers we declare to possess - and if we were to cast off the UNANIMOUSLY CONSENTED contents of that Document by which we took our place among the Nations of the world, we would also be declaring our separation from the Britain Crown to be illegal, and our Nation would instantly revert to being a British Colony in a treasonous state of rebellion, which would give the United Kingdom internationally supported authority to forcibly retake its lawful territories (their actual physical ability to do so notwithstanding). Therefore, the Declaration of Independence remains a governing document of the United States IN WHICH IT IS STATED that we are endowed with certain unalienable Rights "by Nature and Nature's God". The document does not, nor could it, nor should it, declare a comprehensive list of those Rights, but, as you know, names three Foundational Rights upon which all Rights hang: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. And to be sure that no one could ever imply that these three are the ONLY three, the States also unanimously preceded those three Rights with the all-important words "...that AMONG these Rights...".
We have MANY unalienable Rights and these are merely three of them. Unalienable means YOU CANNOT BE ALIENATED from them - except of course by an act of tyranny or by surrender. And as Benjamin Franklin so brilliantly stated, "Those who give up essential Liberties in order to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."