In 2008, the United States Supreme Court decided in the Heller case that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies not just to militias, but also to individual people.
I'm guessing that in 30 years they'll no longer be part of the U.S. Part of the secession deal will be that we'll get Pearl Harbor permanently, but a Dem president will give up that too within a decade or two thereafter.
Lovely place, geographically, but terribly dysfunctional socially. Under today's technological circumstances I am not certain we really need Perl Harbor. I vote to cut off the subsidies and defense protection and give them the whole damned place to do with and run as they please.
Fools all the way around. Ripe for the final stage of the WEF agenda, 15 minute cities, limited travel, digital ID's, no private land except for elites. I wouldn't even consider traveling there no matter how beautiful.
Aloha nullification. Quite the concept. Actually, I don’t think either the word or the spirit existed much before the early 19th century, in what had been as brutal a society as any other, Rousseau’s “noble savage” crap notwithstanding. Not that the U.S. annexation of the place was a particularly pretty piece of work, either.
One very minor correction: Statehood was in 1959, not ‘49 as your text implies.
Great piece, which touches on so much of what ails us.
I remember way back in the 1980s when I was a Navy sailor attending nuclear power school that the instructors occasionally used the acronym GCE when grading tests. GCE meant … Gross Conceptual Error; an error so completely wrong that it defies logic and scientific principle. Perhaps an obvious example of a GCE in nuclear engineering school would be answering “unicorn farts and rainbows” when asked what are the by-products of the controlled fission of Uranium 235.
The “Aloha” State Supreme Court has obviously decided this case by committing a GCE; a gross conceptual Constitutional error of epic proportions. The recent SCOTUS decisions regarding the 2nd Amendment have clearly illustrated that the 2A is not some sort of orphan amendment in the Constitution, but rather one that fully upholds and encapsulates an individual’s Divine right to self-determination and defense of self, family, home, property and country.
These post modern leftists infesting too many courthouses, like this so called “Aloha” Court, seem to have little problem in recognizing 1st, 4th, 5th and even 8th Amendment rights as individual rights; at least in most cases, as many leftists are now compromising these rights too. Yet the 2nd Amendment somehow magically becomes a collective right, overriding an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
Expect lots of federal judicial pushback against this asinine Hawaii ruling. I would even humbly suggest that these State Supreme Court justices behind this ruling be referred to the appropriate state bar association for investigation and possible discipline for betraying their oaths of office and for making such a gross unconstitutional ruling. These Aloha justices ought to have their law licenses revoked.
It’s been said that “aloha” means both hello and goodbye in the native Hawaiian language, among other friendly meanings and messages. It will not be long until a U.S. District Court judge, U.S. appellate court, or even the SCOTUS itself, comes back at this twisted “Aloha” State Supreme Court with a harsh and direct … hasta la vista, baby!
Do you remember that when US states ignored US laws, there was a punishment for doing so? It often came in the form of cutting off federal funding for some service that the ignorer had gotten used to enjoying. Does the O'Biden Cartel know about this tactic, or does the ignoring party fall into the 'protected class'?
"The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right', subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees."
Glenn, I’m still envisioning you or anyone else being hanged from a coconut tree. (Bravo, BTW, for saying “hanged” and not “hung.”) Just getting the hangee and the executioner up to the top would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, but then whatever palm frond they hitched the rope to would probably break off, leaving the hangee only half-choked during his descent to the ground to join the other coconuts.
So I’m thinking that if you find yourself in da Islands, given what you’ve written here, you should get thee to a the City of Refuge and find a kahuna who will shrive and absolve you of your black hearted lack of aloha. The hanging tree is not to be flirted with.
Just a small, but important point of clarifiation if I may. 10 USC 12 states:
§246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
So when the anti-gun crowd points and shrieks about the 2nd Amendment only pertaining to "militias" one may retort with accuracy that every male American between 17 and 45 years of age is eligible for inclusion. Of course, this will have no impact on the totalitarians composing the soi-disant "Aloha Court" but one hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will admonish it in a meaningful way. Perhaps then the victim of this malign display of judicial intolerance might be able to sue for deprivation of a Constitutional right. Meanwhile, perhaps it is time to consider repealing The Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States of July 7, 1898; what can be done can be undone.
I'm guessing that in 30 years they'll no longer be part of the U.S. Part of the secession deal will be that we'll get Pearl Harbor permanently, but a Dem president will give up that too within a decade or two thereafter.
My thinking, too.
Lovely place, geographically, but terribly dysfunctional socially. Under today's technological circumstances I am not certain we really need Perl Harbor. I vote to cut off the subsidies and defense protection and give them the whole damned place to do with and run as they please.
Glenn: I truly doubt that!! What Dem would give up TWO US Senators? LOL
Tell 'em well throw in California to . . . uh . . . sweeten . . . (never mind)
Fools all the way around. Ripe for the final stage of the WEF agenda, 15 minute cities, limited travel, digital ID's, no private land except for elites. I wouldn't even consider traveling there no matter how beautiful.
Aloha nullification. Quite the concept. Actually, I don’t think either the word or the spirit existed much before the early 19th century, in what had been as brutal a society as any other, Rousseau’s “noble savage” crap notwithstanding. Not that the U.S. annexation of the place was a particularly pretty piece of work, either.
One very minor correction: Statehood was in 1959, not ‘49 as your text implies.
Great piece, which touches on so much of what ails us.
I should have been clearer. It's the Hawaii constitution that dates to 1949, while it did not go into effect until the state joined the union in 1959.
I guess it’s the word “state” that’s the problem. Wasn’t it a “territory” prior to 1959? Oh, well, same great Aloha Spirit either way! 😄
Injuns. Ya gotta love-em.
WWMPID?
I remember way back in the 1980s when I was a Navy sailor attending nuclear power school that the instructors occasionally used the acronym GCE when grading tests. GCE meant … Gross Conceptual Error; an error so completely wrong that it defies logic and scientific principle. Perhaps an obvious example of a GCE in nuclear engineering school would be answering “unicorn farts and rainbows” when asked what are the by-products of the controlled fission of Uranium 235.
The “Aloha” State Supreme Court has obviously decided this case by committing a GCE; a gross conceptual Constitutional error of epic proportions. The recent SCOTUS decisions regarding the 2nd Amendment have clearly illustrated that the 2A is not some sort of orphan amendment in the Constitution, but rather one that fully upholds and encapsulates an individual’s Divine right to self-determination and defense of self, family, home, property and country.
These post modern leftists infesting too many courthouses, like this so called “Aloha” Court, seem to have little problem in recognizing 1st, 4th, 5th and even 8th Amendment rights as individual rights; at least in most cases, as many leftists are now compromising these rights too. Yet the 2nd Amendment somehow magically becomes a collective right, overriding an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
Expect lots of federal judicial pushback against this asinine Hawaii ruling. I would even humbly suggest that these State Supreme Court justices behind this ruling be referred to the appropriate state bar association for investigation and possible discipline for betraying their oaths of office and for making such a gross unconstitutional ruling. These Aloha justices ought to have their law licenses revoked.
It’s been said that “aloha” means both hello and goodbye in the native Hawaiian language, among other friendly meanings and messages. It will not be long until a U.S. District Court judge, U.S. appellate court, or even the SCOTUS itself, comes back at this twisted “Aloha” State Supreme Court with a harsh and direct … hasta la vista, baby!
See: https://www.hawaiistar.com/hawaii-hello-and-goodbye/
Do you remember that when US states ignored US laws, there was a punishment for doing so? It often came in the form of cutting off federal funding for some service that the ignorer had gotten used to enjoying. Does the O'Biden Cartel know about this tactic, or does the ignoring party fall into the 'protected class'?
"The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right', subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees."
Justice Clarence Thomas
Liberals. Can’t live with them. Can’t kill them.
Mind boggling. So much for spirit.
Glenn, I’m still envisioning you or anyone else being hanged from a coconut tree. (Bravo, BTW, for saying “hanged” and not “hung.”) Just getting the hangee and the executioner up to the top would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, but then whatever palm frond they hitched the rope to would probably break off, leaving the hangee only half-choked during his descent to the ground to join the other coconuts.
So I’m thinking that if you find yourself in da Islands, given what you’ve written here, you should get thee to a the City of Refuge and find a kahuna who will shrive and absolve you of your black hearted lack of aloha. The hanging tree is not to be flirted with.
https://www.google.com/search?q=we+thought+you+was+hunmg&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1055US1055&oq=we+thought+you+was+hunmg&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yDQgCEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgDEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigXSAQg1NzU2ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0b2e75b1,vid:GaxRkEB3Ypg,st:0
So it IS “hung”? And the verb is “was”? I sit corrected.
Everything pertaining to me is in the past tense.
The Hawaii judge is a caricature now, a joke, and a meme:
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/137900699/Hawaii-Judge
Just a small, but important point of clarifiation if I may. 10 USC 12 states:
§246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
So when the anti-gun crowd points and shrieks about the 2nd Amendment only pertaining to "militias" one may retort with accuracy that every male American between 17 and 45 years of age is eligible for inclusion. Of course, this will have no impact on the totalitarians composing the soi-disant "Aloha Court" but one hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will admonish it in a meaningful way. Perhaps then the victim of this malign display of judicial intolerance might be able to sue for deprivation of a Constitutional right. Meanwhile, perhaps it is time to consider repealing The Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States of July 7, 1898; what can be done can be undone.