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If you don’t like something in the Constitution, there is a way to add to it or take away from it. But don’t let congress and the scotus ignore it or we become slaves to the government.
He had to wait until the provisions of the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 were added to the Patriot Act to realize what the government is doing to individual freedoms.
Good cartoon. It certainly depicts the current generations of America who have been brainwashed into thinking that we should shell out our tax dollars and just let the government take care of everything for us. We are in the same position as the first settlers who came here to escape government tyranny. We have not learned anything. Government control of every aspect of our lives IS tyrannical.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but there seems to be a conflation in these comments between two very different events and documents. July Fourth marks the Declaration of Independence, which was written in 1776; the Constitution wasn’t written until 1787. Before the Constitutional system, the former colonies were governed by the Articles of Confederation, which did not give any power of taxation to the central government. One of the primary goals of the Constitution, as opposed to the Articles of Confederation, was precisely to give the central government the power to raise taxes. The original document was in fact thought by some to give too much power to the central government, and thus the first ten amendments were adopted to clarify limits on the power of the federal government. At any rate, the Constitution with the Bill of Rights was a way to build a government which would have enough power but not too much power. In my opinion, it was a pretty good job. But it seems historically wrong to conflate the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution— different documents, different purposes — and also historically wrong to think of the intent of the Constitution as a guarantee of small and powerless central government.
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comicgos said, 12 months ago
HA! The republicans HATE the constitution unless it rules in their favor!
cubefarmer said, 12 months ago
@comicgos
Hate? That’s rich from the guy whose hate is so obsessive you troll your hate on the funny pages.
cubefarmer said, 12 months ago
Read some time what Col. Baslim’s author Heinlein had to say about that, than change you moniker out of shame for defiling the name.
jonesb said, 12 months ago
If you don’t like something in the Constitution, there is a way to add to it or take away from it. But don’t let congress and the scotus ignore it or we become slaves to the government.
Ms. Ima said, 12 months ago
It doesn’t look like Obama but we all know that’s him.
Ice Hole
said, 12 months ago
Try it on, to see if it may fit,?
Kylop said, 12 months ago
Glen, why wait so long after the Patriot Act to put out this ’toon?
ODon said, 12 months ago
@Kylop
Fair question and we all know the answer.
acellist
said, 12 months ago
Congratulations McCoy, that is a wonderful self-portrait!
mikefive said, 12 months ago
@Kylop
He had to wait until the provisions of the National Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 were added to the Patriot Act to realize what the government is doing to individual freedoms.
LingeeWhiz said, 12 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Looks like George Washington to me.
LingeeWhiz said, 12 months ago
Good cartoon. It certainly depicts the current generations of America who have been brainwashed into thinking that we should shell out our tax dollars and just let the government take care of everything for us. We are in the same position as the first settlers who came here to escape government tyranny. We have not learned anything. Government control of every aspect of our lives IS tyrannical.
lonecat said, 12 months ago
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but there seems to be a conflation in these comments between two very different events and documents. July Fourth marks the Declaration of Independence, which was written in 1776; the Constitution wasn’t written until 1787. Before the Constitutional system, the former colonies were governed by the Articles of Confederation, which did not give any power of taxation to the central government. One of the primary goals of the Constitution, as opposed to the Articles of Confederation, was precisely to give the central government the power to raise taxes. The original document was in fact thought by some to give too much power to the central government, and thus the first ten amendments were adopted to clarify limits on the power of the federal government. At any rate, the Constitution with the Bill of Rights was a way to build a government which would have enough power but not too much power. In my opinion, it was a pretty good job. But it seems historically wrong to conflate the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution— different documents, different purposes — and also historically wrong to think of the intent of the Constitution as a guarantee of small and powerless central government.
icky mudd said, 12 months ago
@LingeeWhiz
agree.
Heavy B said, 12 months ago
@lonecat
Exactly. The trouble is your trying to teach history to CONservatives. It would be easier teaching a fish to count.