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    Ken posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    Well, I do believe we are screwed here in the US. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett refuses to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate for students. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1425929920610541568

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      Ken replied 4 years, 8 months ago

      P.S. If you have high blood pressure issues, don’t read the comments.

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        Billy Bob replied 4 years, 8 months ago

        There’s no reason not to jab college age humans. The jabs are safe and effective. Haven’t you heard? Anyone doubting the officials is not a team player and subject to very severe punishment, including death of you and or your loved ones. Easy choice for the judge to make, she’s no dummy.

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          FiatLux replied 4 years, 8 months ago

          They wouldn’t stand up for freedom of peaceable assembly or the free exercise of religion last year (to pick but two recent examples). If the highest court won’t stand up for two such foundational, constitutional guarantees, why on earth would anyone still expect it to show any integrity at all?

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              Bluenose replied 4 years, 8 months ago

              I expect the same thing will happen here in Canada when this gets to the Supreme Court of Canada, if they even agree to hear the case in the first place.

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                Ken replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                Yeah, I know…. This is legal cover for employers, governments, all the way down to elementary schools, to get as many people injected before fall, because come next Spring, no one in their right mind is going to touch these injections. Or at least that is the way they’re acting.

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                  Scarmoge replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                  … dangerous territory here … if memory serves me … in a philosophical galaxy long, long ago and far, far away I seem to recall an argument (could have been an extended comment posing as an argument, you know those Germans 🙂 interesting aside here (insert em-dash here) German students still read Norman Kemp Smith’s English translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason because Kant is so difficult to read and understand in the original German, also Smith added Kemp to his name after marrying Amy Kemp so much did he feel her a part of himself, all in all a very interesting member of my genetic homeland, but I digress) by Hegel not on elf [interesting auto correct], I guess I was typing, Oops sorry the kids all say “keyboarding”, to quickly and “one of” was changed to “on elf”, I’m leaving it in because it is amusing at this time in my caffeine cycle 🙂 (insert em-dash here) my favorites but I seem to recall a comment of his on capital punishment. It went, I think, something like as follows: we all agree, tacitly or otherwise, to follow the norms under which we find ourselves living (in a Kierkegaardian sense). If I show by my behavior that I will not follow those norms the “community” does not owe me the courtesy of any protections that might accompany those norms. In effect my behavior allows “open season” on me in terms of how the community chooses to deal with me. To FiatLux above regarding the comment on “Constitutional Guarantees”. Isn’t this yet more evidence that The Constitution is, more than likely, now only given lip service for patriotic / political draping purposes of course, and is no longer seen as a Reality. It might be interesting to pose the following question to your “Military-Industrial-Social Engineering Complex CongressPERSON” (don’t want to be offensive, also, what is the term for political / social misogyny?) the next time they deem it, for some reason known only to “The Big Guy” (and I’m not referring to Arthur Carlson of WKRP), necessary to grace us with a few moments of their presence. The question: When will you stop abusing The Constitution as a means of patriotic / political draping?

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                      Billy Bob replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                      Ah hah…school teachers’ colleges used to be called “Normals”. They were instructed in the “societal norms” and were expected to teach them to the next generation? Over time they were renamed and absorbed into the state universities to challenge the norms via Marxist and left wing ideologies….ummm

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                        FiatLux replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                        You’d have made a brilliant career as a satirist! 🙂

                        To your question: Ask a question of a CongressCreature? I wouldn’t dignify their presence with my attention. Nor would I expend my energy engaging in what is, practically by definition, make-believe dialogue with what are, almost unanimously, make-believe representatives of the people. If I want make-believe, there are more entertaining options… Of course the Constitution is, de facto, a dead letter at this point, to be temporarily resuscitated when politically or ideologically convenient for this or that judge. (Some would say it went out the window in 1803 with Marbury v. Madison, though I think there was still respect for some of its foundational principles up through the mid-20th century.) And sure, politicians will drape themselves in anything to get elected — the Constitution, sheep’s clothing… you name it.

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                      Joseph P. Farrell replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                      I am not surprised about Barrett. When she was nominated, I read one of her opinions. Her use of language told me all I needed to know: she’s no traditionalist.

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                          Ken replied 4 years, 8 months ago

                          Well, the not so reassuring aspect of this is, there is no hope from the last branch of our illegitimate government. This is accelerating rather quickly.