“Deceiver, Dissembler, Your Trousers are Alight.”
1.“Combustible Trousers
“Liar, liar, pants on fire” is an
idiom possessing a strange
pedigree.
The
common
doggerel traces it to William
Blake’s 1810 poem “The
Liar”
by
the
phrase
“Deceiver, dissembler, your
trousers are alight.”
Fascinating graphic, but
hardly combustible. It seems
rather to conjure up a
comedic mental image of a
12th century troubadour with
lute in hand, playing to a
meadow full of dancing
forest people. Retain that
graphic as we review an issue
upon which the safety of our
families and the life of our
Republic depends. We cannot
afford to be the 21st century
counterpart of the dancing
meadow people on this one.
Neither can we allow
ourselves the luxury of
playing the part of mere
bystanders as the upcoming
March 2013 United Nations
gun ban treaty is finalized.
Our
“asleep-at-the-switch”
behavior must awaken and
cry foul. Even children know
when someone is LYING!
That is the very reason they
echo “Pants on fire!”
2.It’s Not About Duck
Hunting
Our White House Resident
has repeatedly assured wee
common folk that he is “on
guard”, vigilant to defend the
Constitution. (Does that stir
mental images of foxes and
chicken coops?) But, what is
his “intent?”
“Original intent” in the
minds of our Founders had
nothing to do with duck
hunting.
Their
thinking
would never wander too far
from the silent graveyards
outside nearly every farm,
town, and city, reminding
them of family, friends and
neighbors lost in the War of
1775 with an aggressive,
tyrannical government. Those
cemeteries bore unspoken
testimony to their heroism,
yes… but also testified to
their failure to be vigilant in
restraining
government
BEFORE blood was shed.
Loss of justice translates into
loss of life. Lexington and
Concord were heroically too
late to spare 8 years of
bloodshed, disease and death.
3. Current Status of the 2nd
Amendment
According to the American
Bar Association, “On June
26, 2008 the United States
Supreme Court handed down
a
landmark
decision
upholding an individual’s
right to own and use firearms
for lawful purposes, such as
for self defense in the home.
The decision in District of
Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S.
___ (2008) is the first ruling
on the 2nd amendment in
nearly 70 years, and the first
ruling by the Supreme Court
to
uphold
a
citizen’s
individual right to keep and
bear arms” 1
“HOWEVER…”
(think “foxes and chicken
coops”) the ABA states:
“[The decision] stresses that
certain
regulations
are
legitimate. In addition to
limiting the type of firearms
that can be owned, the
decision
…impos[es]
conditions on the commercial
sale of firearms.” 2 Nothing
constitutional
is
ever
“unassailable”. The real
strategy is to use the UN gun
treaty against gun ownership.
Here’s how.
4. Amending the Second
Amendment
The Resident is a paragon of
constitutional “attentiveness”.
Just ask him. Of course, in
theory, anyone laying siege
to a fortress, MUST be
“attentive” to its protections,
if he wishes to defeat them.
Despite pronouncements like
his January 16, 2013 speech
that included an apparent
endorsement of our “strong
tradition of gun rights”, he
knows he must accomplish
two objectives at once: 1) He
must
gain
American
sympathy to neutralize the
Amendment …AND 2) he
1
“Deceiver, Dissembler, Your Trousers are Alight.”
must strike the whole of the
Amendment’s legal power.
His Administration abounds
in rhetoric that provokes a
goose step and salute. His
State
Department
has
published statements averring
“the Second Amendment to
the Constitution must be
upheld” (in the March UN
gun talks) while working to
energize
said
Treaty
negotiations!
…Pants on fire.
Given the strong language of
the Supreme Court’s Heller
(2008) decision, how could
the
Resident
possibly
criminalize gun owners?
The answer to that legal
challenge lies within the
framework of a UN treaty.
Ever since the Supreme
Court’s 1920 Missouri vs.
Holland decision, the Court
has maintained that a Senateratified Treaty is superior to
all Federal and State laws.
(Note: unlike its role in
normal law making, the
House of Representatives has
NO
say
in
Treaty
ratification). The Court looks
at a signed Treaty as if it
were a new amendment to the
Constitution, nullifying the
2nd
Amendment
“constitutionally”.
Don’t
expect Chief Justice Roberts
to stand tall on this one.
Remember, he voted for the
Resident’s Health Care bill
writing it was “in essence” a
tax.
He seemed “oh-so
confused”
about
constitutional mandates that a
tax bill originate in the House
of Representatives if it is to
become law. The Health Care
bill originated in the Senate.
It’s fair to assume he will not
“get” that an alleged “spirit”
of the Constitution should not
be allowed “legally” to
destroy its actual wording.
…Pants on fire.
One day after the Resident
won
re-election,
his
Administration revived a
United Nations sponsored
treaty regulating weapons. So
much for all the posturing
about our “strong tradition of
gun rights”. If passed
(allegedly
“to
protect
children” and “bring peace”)
the 2nd Amendment will
remain “legal” yet without
legal force.
…Pants on fire.
But, the Resident also needs
to “justify” to Americans
reasons for nullifying the
Amendment.
Amazingly,
with the sudden turn-about
toward the UN treaty revival,
there have been a coincident
rash of tragic shootings
across the nation, and all at
once. Reminds me of the
CIA’s clandestine drug/LSD
testing and “brainwashing”
techniques on Americans and
foreigners in the ‘50s, ‘60s,
‘70s (takes time to perfect
such new technologies). They
then inflicted tragic acts upon
communities and themselves.
Wasn’t it Jason Bourne who
reacted in anger against the
CIA for having drugged and
brainwashed him to do horrid
acts in the blockbuster
Bourne movie series? We all
thought it realistic there. But
that’s just Hollywood…and
the meadow people continue
their dance.
…Pants on fire.
Ah, it seems we are to play
the meadow dancers after all,
trusting a conniving Resident
troubadour who smiles at us,
and in his usual veiled
language boasts …
“Deceiver, dissembler, your
trousers are alight”
…and all we do is dance.
- Wayne C. Sedlak, ICHR
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1
Website of American Bar Association.
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/com
mittees/gun_violence/resources/second_
amendment.html Citation as of 2/21/13.
2
Ibid.
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