mick silver
22nd June 2011, 01:03 PM
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/obama-advisor-cnns-fareed-zakaria-wants-to-scrap-u-s-constitution-and-let-social-media-users-write-a-new-one/ ... We are currently experiencing the results of social media electing an inexperienced, corrupt and anti-America president in one Barack Hussein Obama. What could go wrong with letting social media addicts, who have no real world knowledge and are largely uninformed, to rewrite the Constitution… if they can pull themselves away from playing FarmTown and Mafia Wars?
From The DC:
One of President Barack Obama’s most scrutinized statements prior to the 2008 election was one in which he concluded that the U.S. Constitution was a flawed document since it was “a charter of negative liberties.” But according to CNN host and Time magazine’s Fareed Zakaria, the president might have been on to something.
Zakaria is your typical progressive/liberal/socialist who hates the Constitution because it stops progressives/liberals/socialists from forming their beloved dictatorships.
On his Sunday “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program, Zakaria explained how the island nation of Iceland is scrapping its entire longstanding constitution and is starting from scratch, even accepting suggestions from its citizens via social media.
“We all know how Americans revere the Constitution,” Zakaria said. “So I was struck by the news that tiny little Iceland is actually junking its own constitution and starting anew and using an unusual, some would say, innovative mechanism. The nation decided it needed a new constitution and it’s soliciting ideas from all of Iceland’s 320,000 citizens with the help of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and this social media method has worked. Ideas have been flowing in. Many have asked for guaranteed good health care. Others want campaign finance systems that make corporate donations illegal. And some just want the country to make shark finning illegal.”
Zakaria explained that Iceland decided to start all over as a result of the global financial crisis and said it was significant in that Iceland had been governed by a representative parliament for over 1,000 years – one of the oldest in the world.
But he said the Icelandic process is also significant because it highlights how different their process is from what America’s founding fathers did.
“By contrast, any talk of revising or revisiting the American Constitution is, of course, seen as heresy. The United States Constitution was, as you know, drafted in a cramped room in Philadelphia in 1787, with shades drawn over the windows,” he said. “It was signed by 39 people. America at the time consisted of 13 states. Congress had 26 senators and 65 representatives. The entire population was about one percent of today’s number, about 4 million people. America was an agricultural society, with no industry, not even cotton gins. The flush toilet had just been invented.”
Look at how well our government was ran by these 39. Compare them to the 535 representatives of today who have created the mess we currently face. Those 39 wanted to protect our country and rights, unlike the 535 who try to take them away today.
And Zakaria has his problems with the Constitution, as it is interpreted in its current form.
“These were the circumstances under which this document was written,” he continued. “And let me be very clear here, the U.S. Constitution is an extraordinary work, one of the greatest expressions of liberty and law in human history,” he said. “One amazing testament to it is the mere fact that it has survived as the law of the land for 222 years. But our Constitution has been revised 27 times, some of these revisions being enormous and important, such as the abolition of slavery. Then there are areas that have evolved. For example, the power of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, is barely mentioned in the document. This grew as a fact over history.”
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From The DC:
One of President Barack Obama’s most scrutinized statements prior to the 2008 election was one in which he concluded that the U.S. Constitution was a flawed document since it was “a charter of negative liberties.” But according to CNN host and Time magazine’s Fareed Zakaria, the president might have been on to something.
Zakaria is your typical progressive/liberal/socialist who hates the Constitution because it stops progressives/liberals/socialists from forming their beloved dictatorships.
On his Sunday “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program, Zakaria explained how the island nation of Iceland is scrapping its entire longstanding constitution and is starting from scratch, even accepting suggestions from its citizens via social media.
“We all know how Americans revere the Constitution,” Zakaria said. “So I was struck by the news that tiny little Iceland is actually junking its own constitution and starting anew and using an unusual, some would say, innovative mechanism. The nation decided it needed a new constitution and it’s soliciting ideas from all of Iceland’s 320,000 citizens with the help of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and this social media method has worked. Ideas have been flowing in. Many have asked for guaranteed good health care. Others want campaign finance systems that make corporate donations illegal. And some just want the country to make shark finning illegal.”
Zakaria explained that Iceland decided to start all over as a result of the global financial crisis and said it was significant in that Iceland had been governed by a representative parliament for over 1,000 years – one of the oldest in the world.
But he said the Icelandic process is also significant because it highlights how different their process is from what America’s founding fathers did.
“By contrast, any talk of revising or revisiting the American Constitution is, of course, seen as heresy. The United States Constitution was, as you know, drafted in a cramped room in Philadelphia in 1787, with shades drawn over the windows,” he said. “It was signed by 39 people. America at the time consisted of 13 states. Congress had 26 senators and 65 representatives. The entire population was about one percent of today’s number, about 4 million people. America was an agricultural society, with no industry, not even cotton gins. The flush toilet had just been invented.”
Look at how well our government was ran by these 39. Compare them to the 535 representatives of today who have created the mess we currently face. Those 39 wanted to protect our country and rights, unlike the 535 who try to take them away today.
And Zakaria has his problems with the Constitution, as it is interpreted in its current form.
“These were the circumstances under which this document was written,” he continued. “And let me be very clear here, the U.S. Constitution is an extraordinary work, one of the greatest expressions of liberty and law in human history,” he said. “One amazing testament to it is the mere fact that it has survived as the law of the land for 222 years. But our Constitution has been revised 27 times, some of these revisions being enormous and important, such as the abolition of slavery. Then there are areas that have evolved. For example, the power of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, is barely mentioned in the document. This grew as a fact over history.”
Continue reading>>>