Editor’s note: Barry Pruett ran unsuccessfully for the nonpartisan post of clerk-recorder in our county. Now Barry is going to speak “on constitution violations of present administration,” according to a new post on the Nevada County Tea Party website.
Wednesday May 9th – PRE-LUNCH RED SHIRT GATHERING
10:30 am to 11:15 am – Gather at the downtown SAFEWAY parking lot.
Bring your signs and your enthusiasm!
Reserved preferential sitting at lunch!!
Wednesday May, 9th – LUNCH MEETING
Ponderosa Hall – N.C. Fairgrounds
Doors open at 11 am for an hour of visiting.
Program starts at 12:00 pm
Speaker: BARRY PRUETT – On Constitution violations of present administration.
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I am immediately skeptical of any group that needs to dress the same in order to identify with each other unless they are playing a sport or playing an instrument. There is just something fundamentally disturbing about people turning political activity into wearing a uniform, whether from the left, center or right.
“Local comedian returning for yet another engagement” or “A one man redition of sour grapes”.
They forgot to mention that there will be free “hot-air” balloon rides following the speeches…bring your own barf bag.
I wonder if Barry will link the unconstitutional actions of Obama administration to the Bush administration? Many of them are same policies and my guess Barry supported them when the President had an R after is name. For the record I openly oppose them no matter who is in office.
Me too!
If Purett were a constitutional law scholar I might listen to him. He’ll never explain the two ideologies that characterize federal legislation. He is selfish, self serving, and totally partisan in the BS he teaches and unfortunately there will be folks who will swallow it hook line and sinker. It doesn’t bode well for democray or our republic.
Pruett will simply be acting like the head of the NRA, regurgitating arguments honed over its long history to an audience as familiar with the message and convinved of its infalilbility as they are convinced that the right for each person to have an opinion on an issue equates to such opinions being valued equally to those of all others, despite the expertise from which an opinion in rebuttal is expressed. He will selectivly cite case law, passages, opinions, etc., supporting his POV, as is usual for participants in debates, or preaching to the faithful.
This morning I read a short op-ed piece in WaPo on Originalism-Living Constitution interpretations of the Constitution by some so called scholar–I already forgot who it was. All I remember is his seeming dismissal of Jefferson’s labeling the document, “A Living Constitution.”
We are in an age when contmporary pundits pretend to know the minds of the founding fathers better than those men themselves did. No doubt those men battled with inner conflicts on many issues, slavery being one of them, but they were exhausted, fed up, hating Philadelphia, homesick and just wanted to go home. Many hardly ever attended; even Hamilton’s attendance, if I remember correctly, was limited to one stretch of a few weeks, before he returned to N.Y.
In the end they patched together a document agreeable in most respects, with the Bill of Rights to be settled after the required number of state ratifying conventions approved their work.
One can study forever the writings of the important contributors to the writing of our Constitution–even most of Ben Franklin’s suggestions recieved a polite hearing due to the deserved reverence in which he was held, but were quickly voted down–which were actually limited to a few of the many delegates. But being a pragmatist–some might say a cynic; I would deny that label. The proof, the always contentious battles in the Senate over SCOTUS and other federal court judge nominees, which, at there root, are about the perceived political leanings of said nominees will affect judicial rulings. We are all products of our past. Ultimately, as I have said, the Constitution means nothing more than FIVE JUSTICES say it means at any particular time in history.
Otherwise, where in the most expansive, free wheeling, World Wrestling Association no-interpretations-barred reading of our Constitution do we find plain language allowing such decisions (opinions of a majority of one) such as Dred Scott, Citizens United, the latest strip search allowance and the other rulings, all 5-4, that have decimated 4th amendment protections.
The column was by George Will, discussing a new book by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th District. The book: Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans are Losing Their Inalienable Right To Self Governance.