Warren Obama is not doing the things you say. The American people are doing it. He has high approval ratings. You still may not like what the American people are doing and that is your priviledge. But have decency to place blame or give credit where it is due on the American people. So maybe you don't like the American people, or maybe you don't like people period, maybe you are just a misanthrope. But you can not blame it all on Obama.

Mike I will not dignify your question when you are so inept or ignorant or evil to repeat a lie about Obama's birth and credentials. You have a right to political views and agendas, you do not have a right to lie or advance lies. You are only a jail house lawyer Mike. We have had a Supreme Court to interpret the thing since the beginning. That court was established by the Constitution. If you attack the Court and the Courts history you are attacking and defiling the Constitution. The US Government built and layed roads way back in the late 1700 and early 1800's. Do you purport to say that those roads were unconstitutional and that the Court let it slip by as far way back then. You are a sick man Mike, get some help!

The quote is absolutely true and we have a Supreme Court to oversee that the Constitution is never stepped on or over. Thank God that this is so. Thus his statement is superfluous and unnecessary. Consider the source Chairman of the Cato Institute. He is being paid to say this. Ruby Ridge and Waco were self-inflicted suicide and mass murder. The primary participant at Ruby Ridge has recanted his actions at Ruby Ridge and his unlawful defiance of competent authorities. Koresh was hell bent on murdering his flock.

True but yes sad. Few have read the thing. Those who want arms for instance to take on the government should read the part that says that they are part of the unorganized militia and the President is their Commander In Chief. Most people assume the Constitution must say what ever their hearts desire is. It was a document carefully crafted in an atmosphere of compromise. No one ever gets their own way in such an atmosphere, sort of like democracy. Live with it!

What trash talk. I strongly object to the notion that "minoritiy property owners are the truest lovers of their country". History has shown that property owners and monied people (some of them) will go whereever they can get the biggest bang for the buck. When they lost their property rights to slaves they took their money north or to Europe and their residences also. Their is only one thing worse than a majority oppressing a minority it is when a minority oppresses a majority. This guy would have loved feudal times. In addition he knows nothing about semantics. A republic is especially in his time a government by the people, the word means back to the people. Re means return, so the word means return to the people, the people choose. Same thing as a democracy.

I like it! Those who attach our Declaration and Constitution and even talk of sometime of paradigm shift in our language and logic (those who hate our cops, firefighters, military officers etc) and talk even if only poetically about taking over governmetn by some minority effort are the greatest affront to our founding ideals. Call Obama anything you care to but he is the Costitutionally elected preserver of our constitution. Taught constitutional law for a decade. Any of you guys ever take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Dear Editor: Thanks for your comments. You obviously know of the mutitude of blog sites where folk discuss and say anything they wish. If this is not freedom of speech then what is freedom of speech. Those with a persecution complex about this just ain't hitting on all cyclinders.

A soveriign can do anything he or she wants to without consequence. You can do this in your home unless you abuse others or violate building codes. In the street you must drive on the right side, may not spit on the sidewalk etcetera. You are not soverign. Mike often avows Christianity and religion. The word religion conotes rules, laws, The Ten Commandments. Someone who is under the Ten Commandments is not at all soverign, but beholding to THE KING! Will you guys ever get it!

Blah, blah. Make your Declaration sign your John Hancocks, take up your arms, I will prepare the gallows. To compare yourselves to the courageous founders is an outrage!

Mike you should try poetry rather than polictical economey. Your soverign bullshit sounds poetic but it is a crock since your and I are subject to arrest for any number of violations. A soverign is above all law for they are the law. If you insist I poetry why don't you try in on a poetry site.

Read the Constitution Ken, all miltiary force in the USA comes under the President including organized and unorganized militia. In terms of military I guess you could say that the USA is totalitarian.

The Declaration was a specific document written for a specific purpose. Its preamble has a timeless and universal appeal to it but the rest of the document is a detailed listing of the usurpations, indignities etcetera enacted upon the colonies by the King of England. If you all want to declare independence form someone I suggest you write a new Declaration and take up your arms. Lots of luck to all would be traitors. (I am of course being facetious about the luck part, I hope all traitors go to hell!) A traitor to me is someone who takes up arms against a freely elected government of the majority of the people. Small insurrections come and go and will be dealt with. I see little difference between your attitudes towards our majority governments (be they conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican) and those of the Taliban and Al Qaeda against the majorities in their countries.

The Declaration was aimed at and predicated upon the fact that the colonies were ruled by a Kingdom of Tyranny. We are now a free and active democracy. The words do not apply to overthrowing a free and active democracy. Once "they" stop counting our votes or stealing elections then we can again invoke the Declaration. Jim K your amd Mike's very statements defies its own meaning. I guess it is therefore an oxymoron. In saying that freedom of speech is done you are exercising the full extent of freedom of speech. Forgive them for they know not what they say! Overthrowing a king or dictator or declaring independence from them is a whole lot different than overthrowing a freely and democratically elected government and society. Sadly some of y'all don't know the difference!

We our Soverign in our homes unless they of course get a warrant. We are not soverign in the streets and public places, neither were the English.

This quote was prior to 1923, it certainly does not apply to 2009. Furthermore the Declaration was railing against a tyrannical monarchy. We now have a thriving democracy, thanks to The Declaration of Independence. The proof of our thriving democracy and freedoms is this blog site.

He is correct, sadly to say! Like at work their were two rules: 1) the boss is always right 2) when the boss is wrong see rule Number 1. The King is right until he loses his head. It is good to be the king until then.

The government founded in Washington, D.C. 12 years later after these words were written has done just that for 222 years now that is it has secured these rights to a greater and greater extent so that we are the freest people in the history of the world. In the 1861 it fought to secure these blessings to the residents and states that were at war against these ideals and it did so again in the 1960's by sending troops to Arkansas and Alabama for example. We should be proud that our nation and its' government has advanced these ideals both here and abroad for 222 years.

What she may be saying is that we are as free as we want to be. What is freedom?To be told who to marry, where to live or work by your parents, friends or government is not freedom at all. To be your own person is true freedom, with it comes the right to choose, to vote, to have your say in matters.Those who don't vote, who feel trapped by friends, society parents or government obviously are not free or at least don't feel free. Being free is more than just a governmental or political thing. Each generation and each person must find and proclaim their freedom.

I studied those scriptures several years ago Mike, and what the Hebrew experience teaches me is that God is a god who wants democracy for his children. He did not want them to have a King with all of the ass kissing, hangers on, and sycophants such a society and government creates. He wanted each man to be soverign and have a voice a vote in the matters concerning the whole. Later Jesus attacked the hierarchy of government and theocracy when he attacked the Sadducees and Pharisees and the Apostle Paul explained to us that we do not report to Priests and hierarches but have direct access to the one and only KIng. The principle that we each and individually have this direct access we are therefore all equals. These Hebrew/Christian teachings in my value system makes what I consider the essence of DEMOCRACY! I agree with you about one thing, you do not write to well which is a really big OOPS!

Political harmony means that a way exists for people of different views to discuss and arrive at closure, it does not mean agreement. It does mean that after discussion and voting the majority will have its way or sometimes a super majority. The minority will always have their voice but never their way, that would be a minority dictatorship. Jim K from what I hear on the news today the Republican Party is now defunct, and it is only right after what they have done to us lately. Maybe they will return once they actually have some real and important to say. Let us be tankful that we have had a working constitution that has held this Union together in politcal harmony and through political harmony for 222 years. There are some who care little for HARMONY Or UNION, they would prefer disharmony and disunionity. I think they are generally called misanthropes.

Very interesting indeed and apropos to the latter day discussions we have been having here. Henry points out that the Articles of Confederation was a confederation of states, whereas "in order to form a more perfect union" the Constitution and the government which it set forth and gave life to was a federation of people. "We the people in order to form" and not "we the states in order to form". A soverign is an all powerful person, one whom cannot be arrested, taxed, or commanded by anyother. There are no soverign persons in America. There are few in the world. One may be soverign in ones home, when you step on to the steet or sidewalk you are no longer soverign.

He was right on. And we still have the right to alter or abolish it. We do it every election cycle. We do not have the right to alter or abolish it by force, until free and fair elections are no longer held. Huey was correct in much of his analysis but he was wrong in his failure to understand how things get changed in America. He would be shocked to see the USA of 2009. Patience is the operative word for a healthy working democracy. He was incorrect in calling America a colony of England, there were 13 colonies of England and they were not totally sure whether or not they were united or Americans, that came later.

Mike the Constitution and the Union founded under it was about a coming together not a coming apart. The weight of the matter was about union and unity. Now in this matter of unity the founders were also right to consider and give an ear to minority opinion. But always remember that the overriding tone of the Revolution and The Declaration and the Constitution was and is about union. Again Mike I never oops, I just think outloud, and correct and revise my remarks outloud. The Constitution has always thus far protected us from tyranny of the minority. That is what elections are all about. Minorities and majority views and opinions change, and leaders rise up to change views and opinions and folk shift their allegiances from one side to another, this is what happened apparently in November.

Editor: I looked up Ghandi quotes and found this one. Very unusal for a man who promoted non-violent acition. "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest".

To The Editor: Your comment about a lack of liberty quotes around the world is a bit saddening. In 20 seconds I can think of a handful of men if not their words that would be more than fitting for inclusion on this site. Ever heard of Ghandi, that guy in South Africa who spent 20 years or so in prison, Simon Bolivar, the peasant leaders of Mexico, that freedom fighter Ho Chi Min, Michel is corect that freedom is a human issue not an American issue. Oh yeah Gorbachev and Yeltsin.