2A Does Guard 1A

 

From the Constitution of the United States of America

First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

Second Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Assertion/Question

There has been a long standing assertion that the US 2^nd Amendment was put in place to protect the 1^st Amendment, though for many this does not seem like a reasonable position to hold; additionally for many people the 1^st Amendment only addresses freedom of speech.

This Author’s Position/Reasoning

The simplicity of the US Constitution is in adoption a work of art. Of course as the years passed many people were able to provide many interpretations. For example from the 1^st amendment there is the term ‘the press’. Back in the day of the writing of the Constitution, some people privately owned their own printing press and others would bring a single page document to have it printed in mass to be handed out to the masses; this practice provided for the launch of many a NEWS paper, some of which became what we recognize as ‘The Press’ of today.

 

From the 2^nd amendment I want to draw your attention to the term, ‘A well regulated Militia’.  For the Americans in 1791, there was an expectation that every able bodied man and male youth who could carry an ax, stick or pitchfork, shoot a pistol and/or musket would rise in defense of their community, much like every able bodied person would also be expected assisting in putting out a fire in their community.

 

When considering the two amendments being taken to task here, both have lines which provide the ideals being a good citizen within a community. The 1^st is a promise towards ensuring a pursuit of prosperity, while the 2^nd provides the means for the citizens to be responsible to themselves coupled with an almost matching responsibility to their community. Also, remember that the primary task of any Federal government is supposed to be the safety of the people ‘from enemies both foreign and domestic’, as the Americans like to put it, and when the Federal Government fails at these tasks the citizenry, writ large, will remain equipped with the ability to pick-up that task thus ensuring the basic freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for both themselves and their community and that those pursuits shall not be infringed upon.

 

Long has it been debated regarding The Law, if any preference should been given to the intent of a law over the word of a law, this conversation asked for either a subjective or an objective interpretation and The US Constitution has not been exempt from this level of partisanship.

 

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were learned men; many of them knew history, multiple languages, the law, and grammar, additionally they understood that when you don’t want something repeated, simply don’t write it down. Yet these men wrote it down and therefore by logical extension they wanted it repeated, and for about 180 years it was read and repeated often with the original intent mostly understood and debated. Then a number of things changed around 1960 when large swaths of people started taking way too many pills. 

 

On the point of being well learned and tutored in disciplines such as: history, philosophy, law and especially grammar, please keep that in mind when you the reader considers the two sentences below:

 

I love eating, my friends, and my pets

Vs.

I love eating my friends and my pets.

 

So yes, one must remember that details such as commas can be very important, less you want to sound like a psychopath.

The Road to Utopia is Paved with Bad Actions

There are those amongst us who have self determined that they know best how those around them must live in pursuit of a perfect world. There are other amongst us who have self determined that the party of the first part are correct and are willing to follow them. It must also be noted that approximately 49% of the population has an IQ of less than 100, for this is a statistical truism. 

Authors Note: 'Utopia' comes from the Greek ‘ou-topos’ meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'

Historically, it seems that the leaders of these utopia seekers have latched onto a sly economic strategy. Countries are often ranked by GDP/Capita; the cunning plan executed by the leaders of the Utopia seekers is quite simple, kill a large swath of the population after they have done a whole lot of work. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be increased by exporting the goods a country makes, of course if you sell so much of the country’s grain to buy machinery people will starve – USSR. GDP can also rise if you increase production, returning to the IQ situation, someone in a position of power who has no knowledge or experience may assume that birds are eating the crops, and then after the order to exterminate the birds, the insects without a natural predator flourished and devoured the crops – China. Another option in the effort towards providing a high GDP score is to reduce internal costs; this was achieved by killing off the intellectuals and the doctors – Cambodia. 

‘That wasn’t real communism’, is a statement often heard when the actions of the USSR, China and Cambodia are brought under criticism. This author must admit that there is a scale under which the principles of communism work, and that scale is small. The nuclear family unit is the best example of communism at work, from each what they can give and unto each what they need, perfectly provides the parent to child relationship, two other examples of where communism works are a monastery or a nunnery. While the power dynamic in these two situations are different, the key is voluntary intent. Within the parent-child dynamic the parents do the work in support of the child all the while slowly ratchet up the responsibility and in the commune environment, once again the laborers step up voluntarily and personal efforts are consented to. They do not see their life as one of drudgery, just as good parents don’t.  

Super abundance comes with fantastic problems when coupled with a very robust safety-net. While there will always be a percentage of any population that will want to protest, what are needed to be taken note of is the population percentage, and the topic of, and the damage done within any protest. When a society has a cornucopia of nearly everything, people in other societies will want to partake in that feast, and once the safety-net is universally applied to anyone standing on a country’s soil; this concoction creates two basic outcomes, if not more; these primary outcomes are: an inrush of the impoverished, and a debt spiral that will cripple the country’s economy.  The tide that raises all boats will have been made stagnate and those countries that suffer brain-drain will remain poor.

At the time of this writing, the GDP/Capita mandate has been abandoned in favour of a new directive with the introduction of ESG, ESG stands for Environment, Social, and Governance. ESG is a score based system for companies that regulates if a company will or will-not have access to funding, low interest rates for a loan, or an actual investment consideration. Company prosperity and investor returns have been pushed to the back of the corporate purpose bus in favour of ESG via this carrot/stick style incentive based play. 

ESG is a social/political action that has been embedded within the business world, yet it comes at a cost and is also subject to manipulation. As an example, Enron has a higher ESG score then TWITTER under Musk, which begs the question – how tilted are the three pillars that makes up ESG, or is it just pseudo whimsical?

There ‘may’ be a longer game being played via ESG. One hypothetical plays out like this: find a product of value, devalue that product via a seemingly altruistic motive, then when the value drops swoop in and ‘rescue’ the value holders, many of whom have already lost some of their wealth; finally change the ESG score so the original value returns and then sell the stocks that were bought low and then sell them on the new high. This is the inverse of a ‘pump and dump scheme’, perhaps a new framing is required, such as ‘drop and pop’. Regardless of the tactic the money always seems to flow in the same direction. This ‘drop and pop’ strategy can also be applied to land ownership, just cast your gaze at LA, San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.   

It is obvious to this writer that the ‘powers that are’ have little interest in continuing to maintain the rising tide mantra, all-the-while ensuring that the currently impoverished remain so and are being hobbled at the base of ladder of prosperity, regardless if it a person or a country.  Leaving this author to ask the questions, why are the globalist factions of our societies so keen not to actually help anyone outside of their own inner circle; and does the sentence ‘You will own nothing and be happy’ make more sense now?

There are two basic styles of government, top-down and bottom-up. It is hard for those in their high ivory tower to lean out the window and see how those below are doing, while it is quit easy for a man on the ground to see that his neighbor needs a hand. The top-downers call the bottom-up people ‘populists’. According to Google a populist is ‘a person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.’ Currently being labeled a populist is supposed to be a bad thing; leaving this author to wonder why any politician would not want to appeal to the broadest base possible? 

So, when one politician hurls the insult of populism and their political opponent, do you feel politician A is in the tower or on the ground with the general population?