Friday - August 06, 2010

And Again!

Dear GOP

Would you PLEASE have some bigwig at the top of the heap make a clarifying statement about what Lindsey Graham, and now Chuck Grassley, “meant” by their statements the other day about the 14th Amendment?

We are being beaten to a pulp on this one. Strawmen are being erected and set on fire left, right, and lefter. It’s time to fight back. For ONCE, would you finally fight back? The right side of the blogosphere can’t do it alone, though God knows we try, day after day after day.

Simply put: there is nothing wrong with the 14th Amendment. It is fine as it is. Even Section 1. The problem is that people have misunderstood what it actually says. Graham and Grassely are only saying that the proper understanding of Section 1 needs to be made clear again. Well, tell people that’s what they’re saying. Please. Because if they really do believe that the amendment is out of date and poorly written, then they deserve a trip to the woodshed, or worse.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States …”

Does NOT mean that anyone born here is automatically a citizen. It never meant that, and it still does not. The misunderstanding comes from the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, which too many people think means something like “and subject to our rule of law while here”. It does not mean that. It means, just like what was written in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (another Republican accomplishment) “and not subject to any foreign power”.

People make a big issue out of original intent. Fine. Easy. Look up the Congressional Record of May 30, 1866 and read EXACTLY what Senator Jacob M. Howard (R-MI), the author of this part of the 14th meant, and what every other representative at the time fully and completely understood:

“The first amendment is to section one, declaring that “all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United State and the States wherein they reside.” I do not propose to say anything on the subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as to not need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment of which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard is the law of land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.”

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=11

Foreign nationals are NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. They are subject to the jurisdiction of their home countries. Plain and simple. Black and white. And yet a huge part of the citizenship does not understand this. Teach them. Make an effort. Try. Find some backbone. Stand up. Fight.

I can find 25 major web sites in a matter of seconds that are utterly trashing the GOP right now over this. To them, Graham’s statement means he wants to bring back slavery. And worse.

I’ve blogged about it multiple times, and so have many others on the right. We are happy to call ourselves the VRWC, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and we do our best to push Conservative and Republican views. Or what we feel ought to be Republican views.

Ann Coulter put up a post about it, and found that the “anchor baby” error may have snuck in in 1982 as part of an absurd footnote by Justice Brennan (progressive Democrat) in Plyler v. Doe. It is NOT law. It is not, should not, must not be official policy.

It’s an awful lot of extra work for us out here in the grassroots when representatives like Graham seem to insist on having foot in mouth disease, with hand grenades taped to their toenails. Help us help you. Please.

Andrew Pearce
Clinton NJ
alias Drew458, http://www.barking-moonbat.com

What we are up against, thanks to nitwit Graham? The GOP wants to end Due Process and bring back slavery!!!!!! The GOP is the party of Jefferson Davis! Dred Scott Republicans! RACIIIISTS!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_08/025055.php
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40635.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008040031
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/4/890271/-Chuck-Grassley-joins-the-Dred-Scott-Republicans
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/grassley-agrees-with-having-hearings-on-ending-birthright-citizenship.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/04/AR2010080405453.html

Kick up a fuss folks. Email your reps, email Graham and Grassely. Email the talking heads at the news networks. Write letters to the editors. Et cetera. Put the word out. Never retreat, never surrender.
Always quote the above bit of Original Intent. That can not be argued with, even though “scholars have debated this for generations”. Horse shit. Left wing progressives have tried to change the meaning of the words for generations. Nothing scholarly there, and nothing debatable either. Just more lies and agitprop.

http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/jefferson-davis-was-a-democrat.html

Posted by Drew458     on 08/06/2010 at 01:50 PM   
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