{"id":8569,"date":"2015-05-29T05:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2015-05-29T05:45:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:45:18","slug":"america-has-no-enemy-more-dastardly-and-lethal-than-the-neoconservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"America has no enemy more dastardly and lethal than the Neoconservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\">America has no enemy more dastardly and lethal than the Neoconservative<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Those men who wrote our Constitution made it perfectly intelligible to anyone who cared to read it. They also left some flexibility in its articles to ensure that as time passed and circumstances changed the document would remain viable as the indispensable protector of the republic they created and of the liberty of citizens who delegated a limited amount of their sovereign power to the national government through its provisions. And after a long and often\u00a0 angry ratification debate, the first congress added a bill of rights to the Constitution as that document\u2019s first ten amendments. These amendments were fully as clear as the text \u2014 perhaps more so \u2014 but less flexible than the body of the document because they dealt with the tenets of republican liberty which, if regularly and deliberately violated by the national government, would require that Americans, to paraphrase Jefferson, demolish the existing government and erect a new one that would better safeguard their liberties and their republic\u2019s security.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In recent decades, however, Americans have been treated to an endless stream of politicians, academics, lawyers, and pundits who describe the opaqueness of the Founder\u2019s Constitution and the need for \u201cexperts\u201d to decipher or infer what the document means. As a result, we now have presidents who take the country to war on their whim; politicians who are legally bribed by \u201ccampaign contributions\u201d from rich individuals, corporations, labor unions, and foreign lobbies and governments based on an absurd reading of the Constitution; a public that is increasingly endangered by flamboyant blasphemers who seek violence and war under the protection of the First Amendment; and the routine criminality of executive branch officials who refuse to obey their oath of office to execute the laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has no enemy more dastardly and lethal than the Neoconservative Those men who wrote our Constitution made it perfectly intelligible to anyone who cared to read it. They also left some flexibility in its articles to ensure that as time passed and circumstances changed the document would remain viable as the indispensable protector of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5792,3823,827,834,838],"class_list":["post-8569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-neocon","tag-neoconservative","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8570,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}