Global War Of Terror V - Constitution Club NI
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drewkittyFrom: GovCal
To: Secretary of Education
Re: "Constitution Clubs"
I hear from several reliable sources that these damn things are popping up not only at the California University, where I can kind of tolerate them, but also in the high schools. Makes me want to see red. Or maybe brown.
Your opinion?
From: SecEd
To: GovCal
CC: Collections Group
Re: "Constitution Clubs"
Boss,
The layers of irony here are enough to float a battleship. You're asking me to express my opinion in writing on a topic relevant to my department. Under the U.S. Constitution, this is an explicit power of the President in Article II. This is not of course the United States, but I am your department head and serve at your pleasure.
The California Constitution is such a bloated mass of crap that while I'm sure an equivalent exists, I would have to dig for it. We don't have to rewrite it and we don't have any intellectual quality on tap at the same level as America's Founding Fathers. (Homeland sidewalked them all.)
The rise of Homeland and her horrific crimes came as much from a lack of public knowledge among Americans of their human, civil and Constitutional rights - and gross ignorance of the laws of land warfare and the treaties that make up international humanitairain law - as from anything Homeland did with a cattle prod or a pistol.
That people want to - on their own time, using State facilities only incidentally as any other community group would - study civics is a Good Thing. That they want to study American flavored civics when that nation is our enemy general, our arch foe, is problematic.
I think Collections should be in this loop.
From: Collections Working Group, Counter Intelligence Section
To: GovCal
CC: SecEd
We are finding the "Constitution Club" phenomenon amazingly useful.
It is a covert soft agitprop operation funded and supported by the Untied Snakes, particularly CIA under their Agency for International Development (AID) cover and laundering the funds through an amazing variety of sources - all of which are compromised when the last dollars pay for facility rental fees and the snacks that draw the crowds.
If the Americants hadn't come up with it, we would have done well to do it ourselves.
Not only does this give us a chance to track our problem children, it helps train the next generation of California loyalists.
We are watching.
From: GovCal
To: [distribution list] 'all you damn fools'
Fine. Fine. Fine! Some rules of engagement I insist on.
I am sticking by the "no United States Flags" rule. If I see that red-white-blue rag in a State facility (other than the San Francisco museums, of course) I am going to throw a serious temper tantrum. Probably close that entire school.
Freedom of speech is not advocacy of treasonous restoration of United States dominion. There's a line. Make sure they stay on the other side of it, or I will park a fucking tank on that school's front lawn. Flying the New California Republic battle flag, quite starless.
Millions of Californians did not die so the Untied Snakes can sneak back in wearing the 1st Amendment like a wolf wears the coat of the sheep it skinned.
Capiche?
###
The classroom is three-quarters full. There is a side table, that had a buffet, that now has the remnants of one. The audience is seated with their snacks.
Three people are at the front of the room. Two of them are wearing business suits. A third is wearing a sensible blouse and slacks which clash horribly with her holstered pistol and the snarling bear credentials around her neck.
She speaks.
"I am Agent Betty. I will only be here once. I am only here to say this once. This 'Constitution Club' thing is pushing the limits. You have the right to be here, you have the right to speak, and you have the right to discuss these topics.
"You DO NOT have the right to display the flag of the Untied Snakes. You DO NOT have the right to say or even imply that California should once again be a subordinate state of the so-called Union. You especially DO NOT have the right to take any action towards that would-be restoration. Those are crimes. I've talked to the Principal. I've been briefed by my bosses who have been briefed by the Governor. Any student, employee or member of the campus community who commits a Type Five violation will be promptly and efficiently expelled, never to return."
Dead silence.
"Keep it hypothetical. Talk about the distant past. Talk about the recent past, when San Francisco was a city and not a glowing pile of slag and ash. But be very wary of the present and avoid the future. We are a nation of laws, not of men or of women nor even of Pat."
A nervous chuckle.
"We have freedom of speech. We do not have freedom from consquences of that speech. Good evening."
With that, she walked out, low sensible heels briskly clicking against the concrete sidewalk outside.
"Hard to follow that. I'm Doug Alvarez, your faculty advisor. My job is to sit over there in the corner and listen. I won't correct errors of fact, that is your problem. I won't censor you, that is also your problem. But if I speak up, it's because of that line Agent Betty mentioned. Just for agreeing to sponsor and host this group, I'm on a watch list. I don't care. Watch me all you like. Freedom comes in many forms and this is one of them."
With that, he took the 'Reserved' seat in the corner and despite what he had just said, opened a book and started reading.
"Good evening, folks. Sorry for the necessities. I am Al Hansen and I am your ... mediator. I may lecture a bit but my hope is that all of you will be speaking and debating and conversing. As is your right.
"The purpose of this group is to study the Constitution of the United States. It is worthy of study in itself, as a masterwork of politics, as a social contract that carried its nation through two civil wars to date. It is a framework for discussion of human rights, of civil rights, and of social rights. Notice that I did NOT just say the same thing three times!
"I would like to avoid the rocks and shoals of having this discussion in a ... ah ... free and independent state. At the same time I do not wish to fling mud by using derogatory terms talking about Americans in the past. Let's leave the 'cant's' and the Snakes at the door.
"Tonight's topic is an introduction to the Bill of Rights with a particular focus on the 1st Amendment, which is the _American_ interpretation of the freedom of speech. Who can start us off by reading the 1st Amendment?"
Despite the pre-printed copies distributed, a certain hesitation in the room.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
A pause.
"Thank you, Sarah. Now to start off, why would such a right be addressed to Congress? Where do we find that Congress? Anyone? Look in the front. Anyone? Fred?"
"Article 1, Section 1."
"Would you mind reading it?"
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States."
"Exactly. So Congress makes the laws, but the Constitution forbids the Congress to make certain laws. So, by implication, can anyone else other the Congress make those laws? That wouldn't make any sense if they could, would it?"
And the discussion was off to a lukewarm start.
###
At the end of the night, when the crumbs of the buffet had been cleared away and some discarded copies of the Constitution gathered up, Al and Doug started putting the chairs back into classroom format from the circle they had been in.
"Thank you, Doug."
"Fuck you, Al."
"Excuse me?"
"I know what you're trying to do. So does Agent Betty, so does the Principal and so do most of my students. You're trying to sneak in the legitimacy of America through the back door. I know you have no visible means of support and I'm kind of surprised you haven't been arrested for drifthood. I feel sure you find Collections agents listening at your door if not hiding under whatever you use for a bed. I'd rather have you do it out in the open, that's all, because I do believe in the freedom of speech. Even hate speech."
"I don't think this is hate speech. I also believe in freedom of speech. It's simply that this is a point of view most of these students have never been exposed to."
"America had her chance. Then she blew up San Francisco and sent in occupation troops. Had you noticed half of our crowd is Rifle Club or ROTC or both? They want to understand their enemy to hurt her better. I want that too. There's a rot at the root of America, at her core, it's in that Constitution too. Three fifths of it at least. See you next week."
They both got the reference.
Not wanting to pour gasoline on the open breach, Al got his hat and left.
###
(original)
Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. [...] "
###
The reader is invited to explore https://constitution.congress.gov/
For example, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3
To: Secretary of Education
Re: "Constitution Clubs"
I hear from several reliable sources that these damn things are popping up not only at the California University, where I can kind of tolerate them, but also in the high schools. Makes me want to see red. Or maybe brown.
Your opinion?
From: SecEd
To: GovCal
CC: Collections Group
Re: "Constitution Clubs"
Boss,
The layers of irony here are enough to float a battleship. You're asking me to express my opinion in writing on a topic relevant to my department. Under the U.S. Constitution, this is an explicit power of the President in Article II. This is not of course the United States, but I am your department head and serve at your pleasure.
The California Constitution is such a bloated mass of crap that while I'm sure an equivalent exists, I would have to dig for it. We don't have to rewrite it and we don't have any intellectual quality on tap at the same level as America's Founding Fathers. (Homeland sidewalked them all.)
The rise of Homeland and her horrific crimes came as much from a lack of public knowledge among Americans of their human, civil and Constitutional rights - and gross ignorance of the laws of land warfare and the treaties that make up international humanitairain law - as from anything Homeland did with a cattle prod or a pistol.
That people want to - on their own time, using State facilities only incidentally as any other community group would - study civics is a Good Thing. That they want to study American flavored civics when that nation is our enemy general, our arch foe, is problematic.
I think Collections should be in this loop.
From: Collections Working Group, Counter Intelligence Section
To: GovCal
CC: SecEd
We are finding the "Constitution Club" phenomenon amazingly useful.
It is a covert soft agitprop operation funded and supported by the Untied Snakes, particularly CIA under their Agency for International Development (AID) cover and laundering the funds through an amazing variety of sources - all of which are compromised when the last dollars pay for facility rental fees and the snacks that draw the crowds.
If the Americants hadn't come up with it, we would have done well to do it ourselves.
Not only does this give us a chance to track our problem children, it helps train the next generation of California loyalists.
We are watching.
From: GovCal
To: [distribution list] 'all you damn fools'
Fine. Fine. Fine! Some rules of engagement I insist on.
I am sticking by the "no United States Flags" rule. If I see that red-white-blue rag in a State facility (other than the San Francisco museums, of course) I am going to throw a serious temper tantrum. Probably close that entire school.
Freedom of speech is not advocacy of treasonous restoration of United States dominion. There's a line. Make sure they stay on the other side of it, or I will park a fucking tank on that school's front lawn. Flying the New California Republic battle flag, quite starless.
Millions of Californians did not die so the Untied Snakes can sneak back in wearing the 1st Amendment like a wolf wears the coat of the sheep it skinned.
Capiche?
###
The classroom is three-quarters full. There is a side table, that had a buffet, that now has the remnants of one. The audience is seated with their snacks.
Three people are at the front of the room. Two of them are wearing business suits. A third is wearing a sensible blouse and slacks which clash horribly with her holstered pistol and the snarling bear credentials around her neck.
She speaks.
"I am Agent Betty. I will only be here once. I am only here to say this once. This 'Constitution Club' thing is pushing the limits. You have the right to be here, you have the right to speak, and you have the right to discuss these topics.
"You DO NOT have the right to display the flag of the Untied Snakes. You DO NOT have the right to say or even imply that California should once again be a subordinate state of the so-called Union. You especially DO NOT have the right to take any action towards that would-be restoration. Those are crimes. I've talked to the Principal. I've been briefed by my bosses who have been briefed by the Governor. Any student, employee or member of the campus community who commits a Type Five violation will be promptly and efficiently expelled, never to return."
Dead silence.
"Keep it hypothetical. Talk about the distant past. Talk about the recent past, when San Francisco was a city and not a glowing pile of slag and ash. But be very wary of the present and avoid the future. We are a nation of laws, not of men or of women nor even of Pat."
A nervous chuckle.
"We have freedom of speech. We do not have freedom from consquences of that speech. Good evening."
With that, she walked out, low sensible heels briskly clicking against the concrete sidewalk outside.
"Hard to follow that. I'm Doug Alvarez, your faculty advisor. My job is to sit over there in the corner and listen. I won't correct errors of fact, that is your problem. I won't censor you, that is also your problem. But if I speak up, it's because of that line Agent Betty mentioned. Just for agreeing to sponsor and host this group, I'm on a watch list. I don't care. Watch me all you like. Freedom comes in many forms and this is one of them."
With that, he took the 'Reserved' seat in the corner and despite what he had just said, opened a book and started reading.
"Good evening, folks. Sorry for the necessities. I am Al Hansen and I am your ... mediator. I may lecture a bit but my hope is that all of you will be speaking and debating and conversing. As is your right.
"The purpose of this group is to study the Constitution of the United States. It is worthy of study in itself, as a masterwork of politics, as a social contract that carried its nation through two civil wars to date. It is a framework for discussion of human rights, of civil rights, and of social rights. Notice that I did NOT just say the same thing three times!
"I would like to avoid the rocks and shoals of having this discussion in a ... ah ... free and independent state. At the same time I do not wish to fling mud by using derogatory terms talking about Americans in the past. Let's leave the 'cant's' and the Snakes at the door.
"Tonight's topic is an introduction to the Bill of Rights with a particular focus on the 1st Amendment, which is the _American_ interpretation of the freedom of speech. Who can start us off by reading the 1st Amendment?"
Despite the pre-printed copies distributed, a certain hesitation in the room.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
A pause.
"Thank you, Sarah. Now to start off, why would such a right be addressed to Congress? Where do we find that Congress? Anyone? Look in the front. Anyone? Fred?"
"Article 1, Section 1."
"Would you mind reading it?"
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States."
"Exactly. So Congress makes the laws, but the Constitution forbids the Congress to make certain laws. So, by implication, can anyone else other the Congress make those laws? That wouldn't make any sense if they could, would it?"
And the discussion was off to a lukewarm start.
###
At the end of the night, when the crumbs of the buffet had been cleared away and some discarded copies of the Constitution gathered up, Al and Doug started putting the chairs back into classroom format from the circle they had been in.
"Thank you, Doug."
"Fuck you, Al."
"Excuse me?"
"I know what you're trying to do. So does Agent Betty, so does the Principal and so do most of my students. You're trying to sneak in the legitimacy of America through the back door. I know you have no visible means of support and I'm kind of surprised you haven't been arrested for drifthood. I feel sure you find Collections agents listening at your door if not hiding under whatever you use for a bed. I'd rather have you do it out in the open, that's all, because I do believe in the freedom of speech. Even hate speech."
"I don't think this is hate speech. I also believe in freedom of speech. It's simply that this is a point of view most of these students have never been exposed to."
"America had her chance. Then she blew up San Francisco and sent in occupation troops. Had you noticed half of our crowd is Rifle Club or ROTC or both? They want to understand their enemy to hurt her better. I want that too. There's a rot at the root of America, at her core, it's in that Constitution too. Three fifths of it at least. See you next week."
They both got the reference.
Not wanting to pour gasoline on the open breach, Al got his hat and left.
###
(original)
Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. [...] "
###
The reader is invited to explore https://constitution.congress.gov/
For example, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3
