The Happiest Angry Mob

When you’re losing in sports or politics, it can’t hurt to see what the winning team is doing. So what are they doing? Protesting.

We should get off our “high ideals” and mount massive protest marches. After all, the Socialist Workers Party can lead tens of thousands against America defending herself.

So why can’t the tens of millions who love the Constitution and our founding principles inspire two million ex-military people, bikers, athletes, conservative Christians, and like-minded “average Americans” to march and shout in a grand circle around the Capitol in D.C, banging pots and pans and yelling, “Hey hey , ho ho, Socialism’s gotta go! If our servants in the Congress cower with fear that we might charge the building, so much the better. Not that we would, but it wouldn’t hurt if they thought we might.

I wrote that (with some now updated editing) six years ago, and though there’s always hope, I was never really sure we’d bring it off.

But this past Saturday, we did.
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Philosophy, not politics, is the key to success

The time is at hand when we will be heard – and loudly. We have already seen the evidence (Van Jones, the health care plan) that it doesn’t take a majority to throw roadblocks in front of those whose main purpose in life is to overthrow the Constitution, not by violence, but by neglect and deliberate misinterpretation.

But I am troubled by some of what seems to be on the agenda for the march this Saturday. Most references on the website for the march still speak in terms of lower taxation and individual fights on legislation as it appears in the Congress.
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Constitution is not a ‘living document’

“On every question of construction, (let us) carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying (to see) what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, (let us) conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

One of the most dangerous philosophical and patriotic heresies facing the American Republic is the argument that the Constitution is a “living document” designed to be flexible enough to assign to the federal government the power to apply “new solutions to new problems.”
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