Replies to post #294974 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[shermann7]

"Democracy is the Tyranny of the Majority" - Thomas Jefferson

I pledge allegiance ... and to the republic for which it stands ...

Shermann

[seabass]

>>>We are a Republic,NOT a Democracy.<<<


banana...if you don't mind. plain republic was abandoned 7 years ago.


"Judge says Bush administration's Katrina policy unconstitutional

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/REPOSITORY/611300386/1043/NEWS01


"A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232605,00.html


Federal Judge: Bush Abortion Ban Unconstitutional

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0601-09.htm


A federal judge issued a stern rebuke of a key White House antiterror law, striking down as unconstitutional two pillars of the USA Patriot Act."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/26/ap/national/main3302830.shtml?source=search_story


"A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's domestic eavesdropping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/17/domesticspying.lawsuit/index.html


"The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the military commissions President Bush established to try suspected members of al-Qaeda, emphatically rejecting a signature Bush anti-terrorism measure and the broad assertion of executive power upon which the president had based it.

Brushing aside administration pleas not to second-guess the commander in chief during wartime, a five-justice majority ruled that the commissions, which were outlined by Bush in a military order on Nov. 13, 2001, were neither authorized by federal law nor required by military necessity, and ran afoul of the Geneva Conventions."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062900928.html

[sortagreen]

OK fine there is no such thing as a democratic republic, and apparently we aren't one. Alert the US State Department and tell them to take that shit off their web site. Better yet call them names.

[Razorbucks]

Is that SortaMoron still playing a fool?

LOLROTF! What a mental disorder!

It's a REPUBLIC, liberal genius!