Twist and Pervert

Sighs of relief could be heard around the United States yesterday as the Supreme Court upheld the plain language of the Second Amendment of our Constitution. This was heartening though not near as much as it would have been had it been unanimous. As it was, our right to keep a weapon in our own home for protection scraped by five to four (5-4) based on a case brought by plaintiffs in gun-free Chicago that because the gun banners have disarmed the honest citizenry has become one of the nation's murder capitals. This margin with Barack Hussein Obama, who himself regards the Constitution and laws of the land as currently defined as merely impediments to be overcome while implementing his agenda, is terrifying to lovers of liberty. Obama needs only one more sane member of the highest court to retire or expire, and he can set the stage for absolutist tyranny. I did not call his first appointee "Soviet Sotomayor" for nothing. America has been the sanctuary and storehouse of human liberty since her inception and this now rests on a razor's edge with the United States Supreme Court just one vote away from being transformed from guardian to enemy of freedom. Though slightly heartened that Chicagoans do enjoy the limited right to keep arms in their own homes (which is actually much less than the broader right originally intended), it is amazing four members of the Court did not recognize the Second Amendment's obvious intent. We find so many already on the Court willing to warp the meaning of our Constitution, and this sadly shows that implacable foes of freedom are near monopolizing power in the courts, legislative, and executive branches of the Federal government. Why else construe the Second Amendment as limiting rather than promoting rights? Why parse the language in such a way as to deny the right to keep a handgun for self-defense in one's own abode? These four clever justices including John Paul Stevens who is retiring so Obama will be the one to replace him with a similar leftist ideologue were well aware that all language is subject to construction and did not hesitate to manipulate the fundamental meaning advanced by the Founding Fathers to opposite of their clear intent, and if Elena Kagan and just one more Obama jurist join the remaining three activist judges, wave farewell to already fading freedom.