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DOJ Could Ban Texas Flights Over Anti-Patdown Law
hellkyng writes "The Department of Justice may ban flights from Texas because of the Anti-Patdown law making its way through the legal system. Says Rep. David Simpson, 'Someone must make a stand against the atrocities of our government agents.' Should be interesting to see if Texas can pave the way for grope-free flying fun."
>>>Most people believe the pat downs make them safer.
Most people are stupid if they think Naked X-ray Scanners and/or penal-breast groping is a good idea. It's also unconstitutional if the plane does not cross international lines, since the US Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid travel by airplane (or train, or car, or wagon). Read Amendments 9 and 10.
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Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid [internal domestic] travel by airplane or train, or car, or wagon. Read Amendments 9 and 10.
This is what happens when you kill the federalist system and replace it with a central oligarchy that exercises power without limits. You lose freedom as the voice of the People is no longer heard in the thousand-mile distant capitol city, and the central leadership cares more about gaining power than service to their bosses (us).
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Dear Lover of 1984-Style Government (aka, a liberal):
I'm aware of the jurisprudence, but I just don't care. You presume the Court is the final arbiter, but there is nothing in the constitution about it. Their job is to review CASES, not to overturn laws duly passed by the Congress and signed by the Executive. According to Thomas Jefferson the final arbiter is the Will of the People, as represented by their State Legislators, from which all just power derives, and as assigned by Constitutional Convention. Furthermore THE WRITTEN LAW matters the most, not the mere *opinons* of nine old (and unelected) oligarchs on the Supreme Court have opined. The Law says Congress shall not exercise powers never granted to it.
"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary: an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
"To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." - Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821, Thom. Jefferson.
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>>>I imagine some would interpret this as meaning, "I want to believe this is true, so it must be true."
No need to believe when you have the written LAW in front of you: The 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.
Clear as day. Congress was never granted power to forbid cross-state travel by plane, train, car, wagon, bike, foot, et cetera. Therefore they cannot.
("Oh no. That darn constitution. Can't we just burn it?" - your typical Washington bureaucrat)
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