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April 18, 2007

US Supreme Court Rules Some Babies Deserve Life. Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban!

by @ 3:00 pm. Filed under Judiciary

I guess we’ll take what we can get.

Supreme Court Upholds Partial-Birth Abortion Ban on 5-4 Decision

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The Supreme Court has reversed a decision it handed down in 2000 and upheld a Congressional ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure. The ruling indicated that the federal ban on the abortion procedure did not violate the so-called right to abortion established under Roe v. Wade.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion for the Supreme Court and indicated that the abortion advocates who sued to overturn the ban “have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases.”

President Bush signed the national partial-birth abortion ban into law in 2003 and abortion advocates took it to court in three separate lawsuits and federal courts in each case relied on the Supreme Court’s decision in 2000 and declared the ban unconstitutional.

Saying the “decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented in the case and said the court should have followed its previous decision on the controversial abortions.

Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined her in the dissent.

The ruling is the first major abortion case in which new Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito have ruled, perhaps giving a clue as to their views on Roe itself.

As they did on the partial-birth abortion decision today, pro-life advocates hope the pair will join Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and a fifth justice in the future who would form a five-judge group giving it the majority on the high court for the first time since the landmark 1973 case.

A fifth judge is needed because Justice Kennedy supports Roe despite his joining the majority in the partial-birth abortion case.

Dr. Anthony Levatino, a Las Cruces, New Mexico OBGYN who formerly did abortions in New York, says a partial-birth abortion is a three day long process and would never be a medical procedure a doctor would need to use to protect a woman’s health.

“The way you end a pregnancy to save a woman’s life is to deliver the (baby),” Levatino said. “If you wait three days to do a partial birth abortion, she’s going to end up in the morgue.”

Levatino said the health exception abortion advocates want is a “legal tactic” that has no basis in medical fact.

The cases are Gonzales v. Carhart, 05-380, and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, 05-1382.

I still await the day that this court admits they totally made up the “right” to kill babies at any stage in the womb. Baby killing is not protected by the US Constitution.

April 3, 2007

Climate Change Cultists Ripping Your Rights Away While You Slumber! US Supreme Court Demands CO2 Regulation. (Audio)

by @ 11:10 am. Filed under Audio, Judiciary

The cult of Albert Gore Jr. is having a direct impact on your life and nobody seems to care much about it. Your US Supreme Court has ruled, that via the EPA the government must regulate CO2 emissions in the United States of America. You probably have not thought much about this matter. About how a big lie is literally being leveraged to control your entire life. And I mean your entire life. Because the mess won’t stop with corporations and the increased prices you’ll have to pay and the longer hours you’ll have to work to pay those higher costs. Oh no, eventually the cult will be leveraged for one of the ultimate goals under the cult known as Liberalism, which is to control the womb. You might hear the Left claim that we Conservatives are the ones who attempt to control the womb by keeping babies from being murdered in it, but you will find it is the Left that really wants to control the womb via population control. Don’t believe me? Well have a look at this link, that was passed along to this blog by reader Julie.

Notice how the mind of the environmentalist works and compare that with the warning from the apostle Paul.

1 Timothy 4:1-11 (New King James Version)

1) Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

2) speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

3) forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

4) For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

5) for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

6) If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

7) But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.

8) For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

9) This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.

10) For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

11) These things command and teach.

The United Nations Population Fund claims to be helping people in the 3rd world, when actually they are doing all they can to kill poor people’s babies. Your babies are next, the Liberals just need to exact more power via government to deal with you.

You’ve got a demon inspired death cult looking you square in the face and many of you probably don’t even realize it.

And of course, since they don’t like anyone to oppose them, Julie also found that they are working to shut people like me up.

Champion of our legal system, Mark Levin sees what happened in the high court yesterday and has sounded the alarm for you to WAKE UP. Yesterday’s ruling was not a minor ruling, but a MAJOR one, that will impact you for the rest of your natural life. How long before the view that you are a pollutant and must be regulated is leveraged to control how many more polluting humans can be born in this country?

Of course Mark Levin uses strong language and he’s probably the first to tell you he’s no saint, but listen to what the man has to say. He’s not the type to crack out a Bible and read you verses, but my view and his view show that no matter what level you view yesterday’s ruling from, it was a bad thing to see it happen. Levin speaks about freedom, I speak about cultists running your life. Either way, you lost and didn’t even know it.

Hear Mark Levin using the audio link below.
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January 16, 2007

More Proof That Terrorists Should Not be Tried in US Courts. Millennium Bomber Gets a Break From 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

by @ 5:57 pm. Filed under Judiciary, Terrorism and War

Once again the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stabs America in the back. While some praised the court for their decision regarding the Mt. Soledad Cross, I knew they’d let America down again and it only took them a day. They’ve overturned one of the convictions against the millennium bomber, who was caught before he killed who knows how many people at LAX.

One of nine ‘Millennium plot’ convictions overturned

– A federal appeals court overturned one of the nine criminal convictions today of an Algerian who tried to smuggle explosives from Canada into the United States and admitted plotting with al Qaeda to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the New Year’s celebration in 1999.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco also set aside Ahmed Ressam’s 22-year prison sentence and ordered a federal judge to reconsider it. Although the sentence included a mandatory 10-year term for carrying explosives while lying to customs officials — the conviction the court overturned — the ruling does not require the judge to reduce Ressam’s sentence.

Ressam, now 39, was arrested Dec. 14, 1999, after U.S. Customs inspectors at a ferry terminal in Port Angeles, Wash., searched his rental car and found powerful explosives and timing devices. He was convicted in April 2001 of international terrorism and other charges in Los Angeles, where the case was transferred because of publicity in the Seattle area.

In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court said the jury had not been asked to decide a key element of the crime — whether carrying explosives aided Ressam in lying to the customs agents. “There is no evidence that the explosives emboldened Ressam to lie or that he used them to protect himself or intimidate others,” Judge Pamela Rymer said in the majority opinion.

The court told Coughenour to reconsider the sentence in light of the overturned conviction and recent rulings that have given federal judges more leeway in sentencing.

Those nuts are debating if a terrorist was emboldened to lie because he had explosives. Isn’t it just insane that they would even entertain such a matter? This is why terrorists and their allies cannot be tried in US courts. Our judiciary is just so messed up, that terrorists and their allies can shop for judges until they get a sentence reduced to nothing. On top of the fact they are very unlikely to be sentenced to death, which is what they deserve.

Regardless of the information obtained from that terrorist, he should have been swinging by the neck way before Saddam and his buddies got it! Instead he finds weasel lawyers, to help him possibly walk out of prison one day. He was a trained al Qaeda terrorists for crying out loud!

January 12, 2007

Keith Ellison/Hakim/X Ellison/Ellison-Muhammad on US House Judiciary and Financial Services Committees

by @ 5:33 pm. Filed under Judiciary, Terrorism and War

Just the guy you DON’T want on those committees gets placed there. Thanks for nothing Democrats.

Ellison named to Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON — Rep. Keith Ellison has been named to the House Judiciary Committee, a panel that has oversight over issues such as civil liberties, immigration and courts.

“I look forward to pursuing a progressive agenda in the committee, including the restoration of American citizen’s civil liberties that have come under increasing attack over the past six years,” said Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress.

Ellison, a freshman lawmaker, said this week he’d like to see a ban on racial profiling, an issue that could come up in the Judiciary Committee.

Islamists front group CAIR has been seeking the racial profiling ban and Ellison is their man in Congress. With immigration, you know he’s going to favor Muslim countries. And with the courts, he’s avoided saying if he’ll uphold the US Constitution over Sharia law.

He’s also on the House Financial Services Committee. They handle things like terrorist finance tracking.

Keith Ellison has been placed on key committees, that you would NEVER want someone who might favor Islamists to be on.

Hat tip to Michael Savage for the article link.


update 1/18/2007 9:08AM:
Robert Spencer offers his take at Hot Air.

October 26, 2006

Pro-Homosexual James E. McGreevey Stacked the NJ Supreme Court With Activists. Judiciary Run Amuck! (Audio)

by @ 10:13 am. Filed under Audio, Judiciary, Nuts on Parade

This is proof that voting for a Liberal simply because he aligns with some of your views will still burn you! When voters in NJ voted for Democrat James E. McGreevey, they had no idea they were also voting for so-called gay marriage, but in fact they were. Of course if given a vote, the people of NJ would outlaw morally depraved efforts to place anything but one man and one woman into an institution with the name “marriage”. Just as is happening all across this nation and Thank God will soon happen here in Tennessee. The voters in NJ voted for McGreevey because they thought the Liberal was someone they agreed with, but now they have been burned. And many in NJ still don’t even realize it was him that burned them.

Yesterday Dr. Michael Savage uncovered that McGreevey loaded up the NJ Supreme Court with pro-gay activist judges. Of the 4 judges in the majority of the 4-3 ruling, that voted for homosexuals to be treated as if they were heterosexual. 3 of those judges were appointed by none other than Liberal Democrat and formerly down-low gay sex at highway rest stops James E. McGreevey. (Yes heterosexual fornication is also a sin, but McGreevey was engaging in depraved unnatural activity with any man he could get his hands on. While he had a wife and kids at home!) McGreevey claimed he was against gay marriage, to stealthily win the Governorship and then stacked the court with judges that would favor it. Everyone knew he was a Liberal Democrat and simply hoped he was not “that Liberal”. The bottom line is that all candidates prove to be a bit more Liberal once in office than they told voters they were when running for office. So if a candidate seems to be fairly Liberal like McGreevey, you have to assume he’s actually a far Left Liberal, willing to allow all manner of sin to be not just allowed, but actually encouraged by the state with special recognition, licensing and benefits.

Of the judges on the NJ Supreme Court 3 were nominated by McGreevey and 4 by former Republican Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Only one of Withman’s appointed judges sided with McGreevey’s picks. At 75% she did pretty good! I’m not saying Whitman is very Conservative, because I never felt she was, but she is more of a Conservative than McGreevey. Savage details it all here on his web site.

The bottom line is that the people of NJ need to press for the ability to amend their state’s constitution to end this mess. And everyone across the nation should press for a Constitutional amendment that affirms state recognized marriage in America can only be between one man and one woman. As I continually mention, Utah was not allowed into the Union until that state and its largest religious body denounced polygamy. Certainly they would not have been permitted with gays calling themselves married. America has always been against so-called gay marriage, to the point of it being so obvious that nobody felt a need to waste paper on making laws to outlaw it before now. Keep in mind there were laws against fornication and sodomy. America had a level of sexual morality, that homosexual-activists are trying to tear away. Americans regardless of their race or status do not want gays calling themselves “married” and if Americans want to stop it they will need to eventually do so on the federal level. Because if not, the gay activists will press their own claim on the federal level. Just as immoral baby killers pressed the federal courts about the issue of abortion when some states outlawed it. Pro-gay Liberals will do the same with this issue of who can be called “married” in America. The attitude of Americans against gays’ efforts is far stronger than even the effort to prevent the intentionally targeted killing of babies in the womb. So there is no shortage of people who are against the pro-gay lobby. But those who are against that lobby must press the case to the highest level or the pro-gay lobby will.

Also, legislative bodies need the ability to be able to over-ride a court ruling with a 2/3 majority vote. This will ensure in cases where courts grossly overstep their bounds, the issue can be swiftly corrected. The NJ court did not uphold law, they made it. And the people need a means to press for removal of such insane rulings. Savage feels the judges themselves should be removed. Down here in the South, we vote for our judges to obtain and maintain their posts. So it’s very easy for us to remove the ones who don’t act right. Maybe that’s why you have not seen any Southern court ruling for gays to call themselves “married”.

The gay lifestyle is, unnatural, unhealthy and unproductive. Which is why Jesus said:

Mark 10:6-9 (New King James Version)

6) But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’

7) ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

8) and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9) Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Hear Michael Savage speaking about NJ and issues of sexual morality using the audio link below.
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October 19, 2006

Yes, Iraqi Courts are Sentencing Some Terrorists to Death!

by @ 1:52 pm. Filed under Judiciary, Terrorism and War

The folks at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) asked me if they could send me updates about our war against enemies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. I told them sure, because I figured there are times they are trying to get out information that you and I might want to know about, but the MSM is probably not going to report it. Although I’m sure CENTCOM sends them press releases.

This latest piece of information from them interests me greatly and probably you too, but lets see if you can find a US based MSM outlet that says much about it. If they say anything at all I’m sure it will be less than they say about news that might put a negative spin on efforts to defeat the enemy.

CCCI convicts 27 insurgents: Five sentenced to death, two sentenced to 15 years imprisonment

CCCI convicts 27 insurgents: Five sentenced to death, two sentenced to 15 years imprisonment

BAGHDAD — The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted twenty seven individuals from Oct. 5 to 12 for various crimes including kidnapping, possession of illegal weapons, using or taking advantage of someone else’s legal documents, heading, leading, joining armed groups, and illegal border crossing.

A Tunisian man has received the death sentence for violating Article 4 of the Terrorist Law. Ground forces captured the defendant, a suspected member of a terrorist cell and a foreign fighter in May of 2006. The defendant participated in dozens of attacks against the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi National Guard, the ground force and civilians.

Three Iraqi men received death sentences for kidnapping, a violation of part B, J, D and H of Article 421 of the Iraqi Penal Code. Ground forces apprehended the defendants in connection with a kidnapping ring. The defendants were guards and construction workers where the victims were kept.

The trial court has sentenced an Iraqi-American man to death for kidnapping, a violation of part G, D and H of Article 421 of the Iraqi Penal Code. Ground forces apprehended the defendant in May of 2005 for the participation in the kidnapping of three individuals.

Those convicted of passport violations and entering the country illegally included men from Egypt, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Other sentences ranged from two to 15 years imprisonment.

Of course if I were running the court there might be more than 5 sentenced to death, but I’ll accept the court’s ruling :) .

Now I’m sure reports like this have been made in the past and I never knew about them, because our lovely US MSM says very little or nothing about it. The only Iraqi court hearings we ever hear about in the MSM, is when Saddam wants to run his mouth in court.

Notice how the terrorists were convicted and sentenced in Iraqi courts in less than 2 years time. Some in just a matter of months! If those same terrorists were on trial here in the USA, they’d still be awaiting sentencing and once sentenced they would get light sentances. Isn’t that amazing that Iraqi courts better recognize the threat of terrorists than American courts? You’d think the nation that launched the effort to stamp out Islamists would better recognize the threat than the nation that lives under Islam.


update 10/19/2006 8:50PM:
So I got the press release at noon and it’s almost 9 hours later. So far a Google News search shows that only one site in their news search engine is carrying this story. And that site is a military news site.

You mean to tell me Katie didn’t run with this story as the lead tonight :D ?

October 17, 2006

Lynne Stewart Helped the Enemy and Gets 28 Months in Prison. Deserved Death. (Audio)

by @ 2:54 am. Filed under Audio, Judiciary, Terrorism and War

First Zacarias Moussaoui gets life in prison and now Lynne Stewart only gets 28 months. At this rate, if Osama bin Laden were captured he’d be sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house!

Hot Air ran a piece in preparation for the sentencing, with all the details of Stewart’s crime and then like me was disappointed with the final verdict.

You know what time it is… Who can best express the frustration, with seeing enemies who aid those who chant “Death to America” getting off easy? Well on this one it was none other than Michael Savage. He like Hot Air, noted the judge John George Koeltl is a Clinton appointee who was a Watergate special prosecutor. Even Stewart mentioned he was practically patting her on the back before sentencing. This is a judge that should be removed from his post. And this case should be retried.

There were claims that Stewart could not do a long time in prison because of breast cancer, but I think Savage said it best when he said:

You can be a traitor with breast cancer or you can be a patriot with breast cancer!

Regardless of her medical condition, she deserved a trial that should have resulted in the President executing the death penalty on the White House lawn!

You do have to have some level of concern that Democrats running the government might result in more terrible judges and results like this.

I also think the crowds supporting Stewart are a concern. Are they all idiots or conscious enemies of America? Remember, even the more Leftward leaning types in Europe are starting to understand there is a real issue at hand. Going light on Islamic nuts and their allies only encourages the enemy. Those nuts in the crowds supporting Stewart won’t know what hit them until it’s too late!

Pray and educate, that’s all we can do. Because we are in the midst of a very serious war and some people think it’s all fabricated.

Check out Savage’s take. He might be ranting, but he offers plenty of details worth noting.
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September 29, 2006

Mother Says ACLU Attorney Duped Her in Landmark 1973 Abortion Case. Claims She’s Pro-Life and Never Saw Papers Filed in Court.

by @ 6:21 pm. Filed under Judiciary

And this is why I usually read and initial every page in multi-page legal documents.

Woman says ACLU attorney pushed her to have abortion in landmark 1973 case

In a case being closely watched by conservatives, the Supreme Court plans to hear a suit to reverse the Doe vs. Bolton abortion decision in 1973.

Sandra Cano, the anonymous Doe and one of the women who sued for a legalized abortion, has argued that she never wanted an abortion. Instead, Ms. Cano said she was pushed into it by an aggressive American Civil Liberties Union attorney when she was a 22-year-old victim of an abusive husband with her three children in foster care.

In her affidavit to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Ms. Cano said she approached a legal aid office in Atlanta for help in regaining custody of her children and a divorce from her husband. She said she was taken advantage of by an “aggressive self-serving attorney, Margie Pitts Hames, the legal-aid attorney.”

Ms. Cano said she never signed an affidavit that said she did not want or could not care for another baby. The affidavit also raised the possibility that she might commit suicide.

“I am 99 percent certain that I did not sign this affidavit,”

Ms. Cano said. “I do not believe it is my signature on the affidavit, and Margie either forged my signature or slipped this document in with other papers while I was signing divorce papers. I never told Margie that I wanted an abortion. The facts stated in the affidavit in Doe v. Bolton are not true.”

Ms. Cano said her mother and the legal aid attorney tried to force her to have an abortion. She said she fled to Oklahoma and returned when she was assured that she would not have to undergo an abortion. Ms. Cano said she went to court where she was told by her attorney not to speak.

Years after the Supreme Court decision, Ms. Cano sued to open up her records, a move opposed by Ms. Pitts Hames. The records showed that Ms. Cano had applied for abortion, was rejected and then sued the state of Georgia, all of which she said was a lie.

Doe vs. Bolton was ruled on the same day as the original Roe v. Wade case.

Keep in mind Norma McCorvey, the original “Jane Roe” is now Pro-Life.

Hat tip Michael Savage.

August 8, 2006

While People in Indiana Fight to Defend Marriage, Their High Court Allows Unmarried “Couples” to Adopt Children.

by @ 12:11 am. Filed under Judiciary, Nuts on Parade

The people of Indiana are hoping for a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment to ensure marriage remains a union of one man and one woman. In the mean time they have a law on the books that helps defend marriage until that time. This prevents the perverted Pro-Gay Lobby’s efforts to try and have the state offer special recognition to gays that feel they should be granted a status reserved for one man and one woman that make their union official - married. One of the cornerstones of defending marriage is the fact it is the best environment for raising children. Indiana’s Supreme Court fails to make that connection and has approved of the adoption of children by couples that are not married. They can be unmarried male/female fornicators, they can be a gay couple and the state’s high court feels they are just fine for raising children.

Ind. High Court Lets Gay Adoption Stand

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana’s Supreme Court let stand a ruling that allows unmarried couples, including those of the same sex, to adopt children through a joint petition that gives both partners equal custody.

In a 4-1 decision posted Friday, the high court refused to hear arguments in the case. That left in tact the April ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals, which had overturned a lower court’s ruling that state law limits adoption to married couples and individuals.

It is harder, but possible for a single person to raise a child. And a single person can keep themselves from exposing a child to sins like fornication. Plus there are plenty of cases where 2 parents have failed in their duties and someone like an older widow might take in the child for care. A married couple adopting is optimal, but other than that a single person that does not expose the child to negative influences is all that should be allowed. Couples that are “shacking up” should not be allowed to adopt children. Adoption is a privilege that should not be granted to straight unmarried or gay couples. The people in the state of Indiana are in the process of rejecting privileges for gay couples and unmarried couples have no privileges either. Therefore they should not be allowed the privilege of adopting a child.

An unmarried heterosexual couple exposes a child to out of wedlock sex, which may have been the conditions the child was conceived in. An adopting family should be able to provide better, not raise the child in an environment of sin that could continue a cycle of out of wedlock sex and children born outside of wedlock. A gay couple simply is a sinful non-productive entity and so children should not be raised in such conditions via state approved adoption.

For Indiana’s Supreme Court to allow such an endorsement of sinful “couples” runs counter to efforts in the state to defend marriage and good social order.

Many states once had laws to prevent fornication and sodomy. Now Liberal judges have removed those laws and turned established social order on its head, by allowing the same people that once would have been charged with a crime to adopt children. These kinds of legal matters like state approved immoral forms of adoption used to never exists, because once upon a time America knew better.

July 4, 2006

The Antifederalist Papers. Those Antifederalists Got One Thing Right. Our Judicial Structure Needs Improvement!

by @ 12:12 am. Filed under Judiciary, The Truth Shall Set you Free!

I wonder if I’m the only Conservative in the world who ever found some value in a single page of the Anti-Federalist Papers? While the Federalist Papers are a great body of work used by those who pressed for Federalism, there were detractors who did have a good counter-point about the structure of our judiciary. THEY WERE THE ONES who said that our structure gave too much power to the Judiciary and we would be in the court ruled mess we have today.

Look at what they said in Antifederalist No. 78-79 THE POWER OF THE JUDICIARY (PART 1).


The supreme court under this constitution would be exalted above all other power in the government, and subject to no control.

While so much focus is put on the Federalist Papers, I think some Conservatives would probably find some value in parts of the Anti-Federalist Papers. I respect the work of the “founding fathers”, but I don’t look at those “founding fathers” behind the Federalist Papers as gods. I don’t look at any of the “founding fathers” as gods, because my God is in heaven and his son’s spirit lives in me. I don’t take membership in a political party. So I can read both sides of the argument :D . I won’t say I’d want a nation ruled by the Antifederalists, but on the judiciary I wish somebody had taken them more seriously. They made plenty of predictions of doom and gloom, but on some points they hit the nail on the head with precision.

Antifederalist No. 7 ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION WILL LEAD TO CIVIL WAR also has some interesting statements.


The Congress’s having power without control-to borrow money on the credit of the United States; their having power to appoint their own salaries, and their being paid out of the treasury of the United States, thereby, in some measure, rendering them independent of the individual states; their being judges of the qualification and election of their own members, by which means they can get men to suit any purpose; together with Col. Mason’s wise and judicious objections-are grievances, the very idea of which is enough to make every honest citizen exclaim in the language of Cato, 0 Liberty, 0 my country!

And the author of this particular Antifederalist paper certainly was pro-life.


And when the sword has decided quarrel, the scene is closed with banishments, forfeitures, and barbarous executions that entail distress on children then unborn. May Heaven avert the dreadful catastrophe!

Even back then they knew of abortion and even then it was seen as a horrible act by those with a solid foundation in the Lord.

Also, on the issue of slavery, in Antifederalist No. 54 APPORTIONMENT AND SLAVERY: NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN VIEWS, someone who was anti-slavery wrote the following powerful words.

“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.” What a strange and unnecessary accumulation of words are here used to conceal from the public eye what might have been expressed in the following concise manner: Representatives are to be proportioned among the States respectively, according to the number of freemen and slaves inhabiting them, counting five slaves for three freemen.

“In a free State,” says the celebrated Montesquieu, “every man, who is supposed to be a free agent, ought to be concerned in his own government, therefore the legislature should reside in the whole body of the people, or their representatives.” But it has never been alleged that those who are not free agents can, upon any rational principle, have anything to do in government, either by themselves or others. If they have no share in government, why is the number of members in the assembly to be increased on their account? Is it because in some of the States, a considerable part of the property of the inhabitants consists in a number of their fellow-men, who are held in bondage, in defiance of every idea of benevolence, justice and religion, and contrary to all the principles of liberty which have been publicly avowed in the late Glorious Revolution? If this be a just ground for representation, the horses in some of the States, and the oxen in others, ought to be represented-for a great share of property in some of them consists in these animals; and they have as much control over their own actions as these poor unhappy creatures, who are intended to be described in the above recited clause, by the words, “all other persons.” By this mode of apportionment, the representatives of the different parts of the Union will be extremely unequal; in some of the Southern States the slaves are nearly equal in number to the free men; and for all these slaves they will be entitled to a proportionate share in the legislature; this will give them an unreasonable weight in the government, which can derive no additional strength, protection, nor defense from the slaves, but the contrary. Why, then, should they be represented? What adds to the evil is, that these States are to be permitted to continue the inhuman traffic of importing slaves until the year 1808-and for every cargo of these unhappy people which unfeeling, unprincipled, barbarous and avaricious wretches may tear from their country, friends and tender connections, and bring into those States, they are to be rewarded by having an increase of members in the General Assembly….

- BRUTUS

I feel we have the best thing going in the entire world. But we should not be afraid to consider areas for improvement.

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