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talkpoliticsNew Hampshire Republicans sponsor bill requiring justification from the Magna Carta.
I originally thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't:
New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Ray Buckley said he was “mostly speechless” when he heard about the bill. “I appreciate all the hard work the Republican legislators are putting into the effort to make them look like extremists,” he said. “Saves us the trouble.”
Text of the bill: “All members of the general court proposing bills and resolutions addressing individual rights or liberties shall include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived”
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the text of the Magna Carta, from which you can derive your own opinion about its suitability.
Per rule #8: I think these NH republicans are either complete idiots or complete morons, whichever is lower on the IQ scale.
I originally thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't:
New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Ray Buckley said he was “mostly speechless” when he heard about the bill. “I appreciate all the hard work the Republican legislators are putting into the effort to make them look like extremists,” he said. “Saves us the trouble.”
Text of the bill: “All members of the general court proposing bills and resolutions addressing individual rights or liberties shall include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived”
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the text of the Magna Carta, from which you can derive your own opinion about its suitability.
Per rule #8: I think these NH republicans are either complete idiots or complete morons, whichever is lower on the IQ scale.
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Date: 6/1/12 19:22 (UTC)(53) We shall have similar respite in rendering justice in connexion with forests that are to be disafforested, or to remain forests, when these were first a-orested by our father Henry or our brother Richard; with the guardianship of lands in another person's `fee', when we have hitherto had this by virtue of a `fee' held of us for knight's service by a third party; and with abbeys founded in another person's `fee', in which the lord of the `fee' claims to own a right. On our return from the Crusade, or if we abandon it, we will at once do full justice to complaints about these matters.
Justification for the National Bureau of Standards:
(35) There shall be standard measures of wine, ale, and corn (the London quarter), throughout the kingdom. There shall also be a standard width of dyed cloth, russett, and haberject, namely two ells within the selvedges. Weights are to be standardised similarly.
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Date: 6/1/12 21:28 (UTC)http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/05/opinion/obeidallah-santorum-sharia/index.html
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Date: 6/1/12 21:27 (UTC)The fact that the Magna Carta applied to a feudal, rural agricultural country and dealt with the rights of noble landowners as against the Crown well, surely that still applies in a 21st century republic?
I say we should bring back the stocks and burning heretics at the stake in the public square too. Make executions a fun spectacle for the whole family! And debtor's prison. I'm sure the big banks would be on board with that. And why not indentured servitude as well? Parents could sell their lazy, shiftless Women's Studies major kids off for five or seven years hard labor; heck, why not use it as a punishment for vagrancy? It might single-handedly solve the unemployment and homeless problems. It also puts those pesky usurious Jews in their place.
Man, New Hampshire rocks. They don't even bother with the Constitution anymore, they go back to the real hardcore documents of democracy!
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Date: 7/1/12 10:51 (UTC)Anyway, if Christians do it, it can't be Jewish usury.
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Date: 7/1/12 09:26 (UTC)That's the GOP alright! Hoorah!
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Date: 7/1/12 10:53 (UTC)Which is why there was only ever one King John, I suppose.
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