ZOMGitsCriss, AKA Cristina Rad describes herself as, “…a shooting star leaping through the skies, I am a satellite, I’m out of control …”
Rad, a native Romanian, takes on the U.S. Constitution, specifically the
Second Amendment, and explains what might be the problem behind gun
violence in this country.
How did she say Ceausescu and his government meet their end?
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Amazing you actually found someone who knows less about the constitution than you, good job!!!
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ReplyDeleteThere is a way to change the Constitution. It's called an amendment. But this child's analysis of America is about as informed as a certain Irish writer's was of Romania. But thanks for reminding us that attitude counts more in your book, Laci, than substance.
ReplyDeleteI agree Greg,
DeleteShe is somewhat of a disgrace to the vibrant culture that existed before 1989 and the beginning of the current era of imperialism and foreign oppression. She truly does represent the generation of youths, orphaned without the father of the nation, Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Since that's not what I said, no, you don't agree.
DeleteYou misinterpret me, my comrade, I meant:
DeleteFor different reasons we may agree that she is an idiot.
Unfortunately that may be the extent of our agreement.
This young lady made a startling statement, "As if the Constitution is something unchangeable, untouchable, above any reproach, never to be challenged, never to be questioned."
ReplyDeleteYes, that is exactly what the U.S. Constitution is. It is the Supreme Law of the Land whose entire purpose is to limit, not expand, government power. If anyone disagrees with the Constitution or wants more power for the government, they can go through the amendment process that is in the Constitution. When government exceeds the Constitution, it is by definition an illegal power grab! It is also a tyrannical power grab.
The nice young lady also stated,
ReplyDelete"I am not a nationalist. I feel very little sense of identity or deep connection with the place where my mom and dad just happened to have sex and pop me out. I take no sense of pride in my nationality any more than I do in my skin color or gender or sexual orientation or anything I was born with and basically had no choice over."
How sad. And yet I see a kernel of wisdom in her statement. Her country (Romania) doesn't really present much to be proud of. I would feel the same way if I were Romanian. But I am a United States citizen. The reason I AM a nationalist is because the United States embodies an ideal that the history of the world has never seen and will probably never replicate in the future. That unique ideal is why 10s of millions of people from all over the world have immigrated to the United States. It is also the reason that so many people hate the United States.
If you love liberty, personal responsibility, self-reliance, equality, rights, and opportunity -- to be the most that you can be without government interference -- that is the ideal of the United States. If that ideal, and by extension the United States are so awful, why is everyone trying to get in? If the Socialist countries in Europe are so fantastic, how come millions of U.S. citizens are not emigrating to Europe?
Greg and the other Anonymous have already sufficiently covered the objection to honoring the Constitution and covered the proper way to change it if you don't like it, so I won't beat that dead horse anymore except to say that Laci proves he's a sucky lawyer since he can't grasp notions so simple that non-lawyers can grasp so thoroughly as to club him with their logic bats like a baby seal.
ReplyDeleteAs for the notion that government military power can and will always beat any civilian uprising--look to what happened in Lybia and what is happening in Syria. Armed civilians rose up. The Government didn't automatically destroy them and the entire area around them because that would have drawn international condemnation, and because what good does it do to gas or carpet bomb your own country, killing your loyalists with the insurgents.
Eventually the violence escalated and the battle lines became better drawn, and such atrocities started happening. What did we see then? Members of the military started defecting, and taking heavy weapons or helping capture such weapons, evening up the fight. Also, people started making their own weapons--look online and you'll see journalists' reports on the improvised weapons built by insurgents in both countries.
Finally, you gun controllers like to post cute pictures of the US military's gadgets, all the way up to and including bombs, bombers, and sometimes even nukes, and then say things like "But your AR-15 could Totally defeat a tyrannical government with all this."
Pause and think about what you're saying: you're rooting for the eventual use of anything up to and including nukes to get rid of us if a civil war breaks out. Your side calls for US intervention if Syria uses gas weapons, but you glibly taunt us with the idea that you'd laugh at us and our fate if the government were to put the full force of the Military, up to and including nukes, into wiping us out.
Let that sit and stew a while. You favor the same escalating tactics of genocidal dictators clinging to power. What nice, friendly people you gun controllers are.
I liked everything she had to say. Thanks for posting it Laci. I thought the comments were mainly defensive responses to insightful criticisms.
ReplyDeleteYou call any response to your side a defensive reaction, so your comment is meaningless. She's wrong about U.S. law, wrong about history, and wrong about guns, but otherwise, quite insightful.
DeleteIt's an easy view to have if you think freedom, once gained, can never be lost, that it can never be won from those who will not allow it and that tyranny can not be successfully resisted. This gets to the heart of a fundamental difference between those who advocate for more control vs those who advocate for more freedom.
ReplyDeleteContrary to what control advocates would have us believe, freedom can be lost. It can be gained, even if those in power refuse to let go of their power. And tyranny can be resisted successfully. History tells us all these things are possible. So, this young lady's comments, while she clearly believes them, are not supported by fact.