Week 2 Discussion: 912 Petition

This post is not a place for the partisan vilification of any political party. People are at fault, and history if we read it without bias clearly tells how we got here, but we should focus on the solutions and identify present and future obstructions to those solutions be they people or policies rather than engage in petty finger-pointing. If it must be brought up, bring it up, but move beyond it: we're here, and now we need to deal with it.

I actually wrote something on Saturday for this week's discussion (apolgies for not posting yesterday; first day of vacation!), but I came across this petition on Tuesday. The website is www.912petitions.com. I figured it was a very good summation of pretty much what I believe in now which is probably pretty beneficial for you guys to know considering that I'm writing these analyses and my previous Party Apologist methods were only officially put to death in December. I don't know enough about two of the issues to agree or disagree with them yet, but the petition is otherwise excellent.

If you agree with it, please sign it online or print it out HERE if you want your actual John Hancock on it. ;) If you don't agree, then I ask you to consider the questions that are asked and even post your disagreements here.

Excerpt from Cover Letter Background Info:

The United States Constitution is a LIMITING document.

If authority is not enumerated, it has not been granted by We the People of the United States of America.

Petition for Redress of Grievances


To the United States Congress, United States Supreme Court and President of the United States:

Whereas, the First Amendment guarantees our right to Petition for Redress of Grievances, and

Whereas, the Senators and Representatives, all executives and judicial officers of the United States are bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution, and

Whereas, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people, and

Whereas, the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws, and

Whereas, Article 1 of the Constitution prohibits both the federal government and the states from passing either bills of attainder or ex post facto laws, and

Whereas, the Supreme Court has insisted that "a Bill of Attainder may affect the life of an individual, or may confiscate his property, or may do both”, and

Whereas, “All laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void” (Marbury v Madison, 5 US (2Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803)) and,

Whereas, We the People, have been betrayed through treachery and breach of allegiance, by those entrusted with the responsibility to safe guard our liberty and the United States Constitution,

We the People, in seeking Redress of Grievances, as is our right under Amendment I of the United States Constitution, ask this question of each branch of Federal Government:

“Where in the Constitution do you find authorization for each and all of the following?”
( The Petition continues... )