Thursday, September 19, 2013

Liberals change the 2nd Amendment Ad Hoc





U.S. History Textbook Guts the Second Amendment
Res Ipsa Loquitor
Author John J. Newman has some explaining to do. His textbook, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination, literally rewrites the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

On page 102 of Newman’s book (page 134 of the PDF version), the author cuts the Second Amendment in half and leaves out several key words. [Full]

The article comments say it all - here's a few

I'm a law school professor who has taught a Con Law seminar on the Second Amendment for over 20 years, was cited by Justice Scalia in the Heller opinion, and can read English.

John Newman is not ignorant. He's perpetrating a fraud. 

Like Soviet propagandists, he knows that a lie, repeated often enough, will become imbedded in the open minds of children. And, once, imbedded, no amount of truth can remove it. As this instance demonstrates, public education has become nothing but indoctrination in left-wing views.
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WTF?? I'm not even going to object to bias of the butchery. Rather, why in the hell does ANYONE think it's appropriate to "summarize" something as short as the Bill of Rights?

Any teaching of the Bill of Rights should start WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS!! Not with the Living Bible / Reader's Digest / Cliff Note's version. The summary does violence to the First Amendment as well, and I don't doubt it abuses the others also.
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The anti-2nd Amendment community has for a long time deliberately misread the amendment, to the point of ignoring the logic structure of the sentence.

The structure is this:

This is a benefit derived from X; the rights to X shall not be infringed.

To read it in any different context requires deliberate, intentional ignorance.

For example; suppose we said:

"Healthy bones being good for children, the right of children to drink milk shall not be infringed".

The "progressive" read of that sentence, taken as they read the 2nd amendment, would be: "Only children with healthy bones are allowed to drink milk". 

Excuse me, but you have to be a real **** to interpret that sentence that way.
via Comment by a our CheeseDanish (mmmmm) pal Hodja!



13 comments:

Jess said...

Oh well. It looks like public hangings are needed once again.

Anonymous said...

Rodge, re: your last two posts, I'm starting to see a pattern here.
olds mo william

iri said...

...the pattern:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen] 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

iri said...

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

I can't be bothered - can you distill that?

Anonymous said...

Thanks iri. Good read and I will procure the original ASAP.

Anonymous said...

Rodge, teh CLiff Notes to iri's clip as follows:

Undermine all American institutions and traditions; replace with statist Marxist dialectic and principle.

A little simplistic, but not overly so.

Kim

Rodger the Real King of France said...

graseeus Kimbo

iri said...

This list from the book mentioned was read into the congressional record in 1958 as a warning to the American people. A quick read of the points would immediately bring to mind clear examples of the progress the progressives have made since that time from point one to point 45.

Another way to distill this information can be to simply state as fact; "we're screwed".

By the way Cleon Skousen is Glen Beck's primary (I would say) inspiration for all things Beck. There's good and bad there depending upon your particular bent toward things religious.

Anonymous said...

Iri, did you just quote a Mormon (skousen) source?

Wow

thoR~

iri said...

I did thoR. He was one smart cookie and not in bed with the GOP. J. Edgar liked him. I don't think he trusted him but he liked his hatred for all things communist. So do I.

Anonymous said...

Iri, was Skousen in bed with J. Edgar? {Chuckle.}

As a youngster, I had a good impression of J.E.Hoover, but it became somewhat 'rusty' when the extent of the snooping he endorsed was exposed. I wonder how many people had files with the FBI who did nothing more than disagree with him...
He built his empire within government, and then refused to hand over the reins at an opportune time, such as when he still had all his faculties. I'm old, not quite to his age, and know I likely could not do the jobs I did years ago nearly as well. Hoover became a caricature.
tomw

iri said...

Same impression here about Hoover. As a kid I got ahold of my dad's copy of "Masters of Deceit". I was pretty young but I got through quite a bit of it so learned early what a ratbastard really is.

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