Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
By Olivier
Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 4 hrs ago
Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan at the White House, March 8, 2013. (David Lienemann/Official …
Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted.
Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America's top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.
“There's one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington's personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.”
Earnest said Brennan had asked for a document from the National Archives that would demonstrate the U.S. is a nation of laws.
"Director Brennan told the president that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as director of the CIA,” Earnest said.
The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789. But troublemaking blogger Marcy Wheeler points out that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights, which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states. (Caution: Marcy's post has some strong language.)
That means: No freedom of speech and of the press, no right to bear arms, no Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and no right to a jury trial.
How ... symbolic?
3 comments:
All i see is a couple of unregistered foreign agent yellow belly traitor cowards, pledging their oath to the Federal Corporation masquerading as the American government, soooo how does this benefit Americans ? IT DON'T ! I only see you still trying to convince the People that these douchebags are our representatives.
Here again the writers ignorance of how our Rights are derived is making a panic and submission where there is none.
The Declaration of Independence states our Rights are derived as Natural or from the God of Nature. The Constitution is a restrictive framework of Federal Gov't, NOT WHERE OUR RIGHTS ARE DERIVED FROM..get that through your skulls and OWN it. The Bill of Rights was a list of exclamation points on what the Gov't will not infringe upon, an additional bar/gate/barrier making these items totally hands off, ( assuming the People would act like they had a pair and not become pathetic wimps who deserve to be slaves).
ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD....THESE CORPORATE ACTORS THINK THEY ARE FOOLING US..... TOTAL HORSES ARSE'S ...... ALL THESE AHOS NEED TO .........GO WE ARE BECOMING WAY TOO SMART FOR THEM..... HOPEFULLY GOOD BYE SOON....
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