What A Breathtakingly Stupid Thing To Say, @AmandaMarcotte

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by Smitty

1789 United States Bill of Rights
1955 American Civil Rights Movement (note Wikipedia’s effort to work contrary to the purpose of integration by hyphenating the page title. Good work, segregators!)

So you’re arguing that exercising a Constitutional right which had been granted 166 years previously was actually motivated by fear?

Lord have mercy, Amanda: that is about the most jacked up, ahistorical, illogical pile of hooey I’ve heard since the last time #OccupyResoluteDesk opened his pie hole. Please just take a vacation, de-program yourself, and come to grips with the certainly messy, but increasingly pro-liberty, history of your country. It’s taken a long time for technology to get us to where we can realize the dream of the Founders. Those getting zany with the airbrush, like you are here, are no help whatsoever.

More at Protein Wisdom.

Update: Andrew J. Patrick is also an Amanda fan.

Update II: linked by That Mr. G Guy, and Hogewash. Thanks!

41 comments

  2. The First Rule of Blogging: No public controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a ridiculous public spectacle of herself again.

    This time, however, I think she’s reached a shocking nadir, pushing past all hitherto known frontiers of ridiculousness.

  5. AHEM:
    “a Constitutional right which had been granted 166 years previously”
    The Second Amendment does not grant any right.  It states that the right (which already exists) shall not be infringed.  The Declaration of Independence clearly articulates the source of unalienable rights as our Creator. 

    The Ninth Amendment, proposed along with the Second by a single act of Congress, states “The enumeration in the Constitution,
    of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained
    by the people.”  In order to retain something, one must first have it.  This wording makes very clear that these rights are not granted by having been mentioned in the Constitution.

    This is important because the Left always tries to win the battle of definitions so we have to fight the rest of the war on their terms.  Don’t surrender to the idea that government grants a right.  Government grants privileges and immunities, which it may then revoke at its whim.

  7. Just when you think the limbo bar of stupidity can’t get any lower, we get proven wrong.
     

  13. What Amanda deliberately omits is that the gun control  laws implemented in Jim Crow and the various Black Codes were put in there by her own Democrat Party for the avowed purpose of disarming blacks so they would be easy victims.

  14. Exactly. Government cannot revoke a right … it may deny the exercise a right to a specific individual because of their actions and as a result of judicial action (cf. the suspension [denial of the exercisie of rights] of 2nd amendment rights to convicted felons, suspension [denial of the exercisie of rights] of the right to vote for convicted felons. Said suspension of the exercise of these rights can be reversed by judicial action or executive fiat (Governors can restore these rights as may the court that convicted the person seeking restoration).
    The rights of man are a part of natural law and devolve from the Creator of nature, i.e., GOD, not government.

  18. Ah, remember (before segregation) when gun control laws were a way to keep weapons out of the hands of blacks.  According to Marcotte, good times…good times.

  25.  Ah, the halcyon days of yore!  How long did it take her to get herself fired?  Two weeks?

    But then of course John Edwards is known for setting high standards.

  26. [fragment of script from upcoming public service announcement]

    This is your brain.

    This is your brain on STDs.

    Any questions?

    Marcotte?  Marcotte?

  27. Wait – did someone expect her to say something profound?

    I’m trying to work my mind around that concept.

  30.  regardless of who hired her she was the blogger for John’s campaign. And while in that position she posted some seriously and breathtakingly stupid drivel. If you weren’t careful just reading it could knock 10 points off your I.Q. per visit.

  32. I use that saying on my kids all the time, however I also remind them that I can take their rights to the Xbox away.

  39. And in other news, Amanda Marcotte declares that America got what it had coming to it at Pearl Harbor, what with it dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities and all!

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