(Jim Blockey) – Proof of this would be in the 1844 U. S. Supreme Court case of Vidal v. Girard’s Executors. In the unanimous decision Justice Joseph Story wrote in his commentary about the original meaning of the First Amendment,
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to
If we would have taught the true history of America in our schools this debate of the Muslims shoving their Mosque in our face would not be taking place. The First Amendment was not intended to give freedoms to America’s enemies.
What would have happened 50 years ago to an American that started preaching communism? He would have been put in prison, or worse, for treason.
Because of our lack of education in the true history of this country we have this false belief that the First Amendment protects our enemies in their quest to take over America. Communism and Socialism are America’s enemies as is the Muslim religion. If you doubt that, here are some quotes from the Quran:
• 5:49-51 – O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
• 5:33 – The punishment of those who pit themselves against Allah and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned.
• 8:39 – And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should only be for Allah.
• 9:3 – Announce painful punishment to those who disbelieve.
• 9:14 – Fight them: Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and assist you against them.
This is not a peaceful religion. Any Muslim that takes Americans as friends is either lying, manipulating us or is an enemy to their god. The First Amendment was not intended to protect all religions; it was intended to protect America from one Christian denomination being in control, such as happened in the Church of England.
John Adams said it best in his address to the military on October 11, 1798, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
What he was saying is that immoral people would take our Constitution and use it against itself. Do you honestly believe that the Founding Fathers of America wrote the First Amendment to protect our enemies and things like pornography? No!
If America’s education system would teach the truth about our history we would not be in the upheaval we are currently facing. The Federalist Papers explain the true intentions of the founders and what they were trying to accomplish. Why are we not teaching that? Thomas Jefferson said,
“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
The Federalist Papers were the only way to carry out his request, yet very few people in America even know what they are. So now we have people squeezing whatever meaning suits them as well as inventing issues against it (separation of church and state exists nowhere in any part of the Constitution, Bill of Rights or Declaration of Independence).
So I say it is not only inappropriate for you to build the mosque near ground zero, but you do not even have the right to do so. Read YOUR bible, your religion is an enemy of America.
(Jim Blockey is an educator and authored “Teachers… It Ain’t Your Fault.” He also has a blog “The Real Education Expert” at www.educationalknowledge.wordpress.com. Jim will be doing a book signing Saturday September 4, 2010 at Borders Book Store on Lake Mead and Rainbow at 1pm.)
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