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January, 03, 2005:The New Year Begins School is starting again, and that's probably not a good thing. This is the second semester of my senior year, and I've already been accepted to one college and turned in all my materials for the others. Because of this, I can't help but feel everything I am about to go through acedemically during this upcoming semester is comepltely and utterly pointless. But hey, Why let school get in the way of education? I'm predicting that during this semester my average rate of classes skipped per-week will increase at least 5 fold, my knowledge of the United States Constitution 3 fold, and my knowledge of the Texas Constitution 35 fold (bold no? ;P ). The residual affects of this will, of course, be an exponential growth in my post count at Protest Warrior. I'm also looking forward the the annual VICA competitions that begin in January. VICA's a vocational club I'm in that hosts local, state, and nation competitions. Web Design is what I compete in and I've somehow managed to make it to and win State two years in a row. The best I've done at Nationals is 13th but who cares. There's a bunch of cool people there and getting trashed while playing Halo is never a bad time. January, 02, 2005:What's a Conservative? Allow me to, explain what a conservative is. A conservative believes that not only should the Supreme Court strictly construe the Constitution, but so should the president, the House, the Senate, governors, mayors and everybody else. A conservative does not approve of wars, except in defense of the land and the people, and only upon a declaration of war by both houses of Congress. A war to liberate somebody else from a nasty government is unconstitutional, illegal and immoral. To strictly construe the Constitution is to recognize that it is not a "living document" to be amended by interpretation, but rather is a contract between the states and the federal government. To be properly construed, it must be read in the context of the times in which it was written and adopted. A conservative is against foreign aid. Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress authorized to tax the American people and then hand their money to a foreign government as either a gift or a loan. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to provide welfare, health care, housing or education. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention abortion or gay marriage. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to subsidize either individuals or corporations. Philosophical and moral issues are to be decided by the legislatures of the states, not by federal courts or even by Congress, whose duties and powers are strictly limited by the Constitution. Whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry or form civil unions and whether abortion should be legal or illegal are both questions to be decided by the state legislatures. No state or federal judge should have a say in the matter, and Congress likewise has no authority to intervene one way or the other. A conservative Christian (I'm not one so this is just observation) believes that his own soul is not imperiled if other people down the street decide to do some sinning. A conservative Christian recognizes that he is commanded to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and comfort the sick and dying. He is not commanded to shift this responsibility to government. He is not commanded to judge other people's lives and to regulate their behavior. A conservative Christian recognizes that something does not have to be illegal in order for him to refrain from doing it. A conservative believes in the real, traditional values of this country: courage, hard work, self-reliance, frugality, chastity before marriage, faithfulness after marriage, loyalty to family and loyalty to the Constitution. Loyalty to a political party or to a politician is profoundly un-American. Now, it should be noted that the republic handed to us by our Founding Fathers died with the Confederate States of America. That's what that war was about. Since then, we have had a centralized national government ever increasing its powers, and an imperialistic foreign policy. People in Washington pay lip service, if that, to the Constitution, and people outside of Washington don't seem to care. As for traditional values, they are little observed. America is a decadent country, especially its cultural elite. One would have to be deaf, blind and living in a monastery not to recognize this. A true conservative has no place in either major party. They are both committed to a centralized government at home and imperialism abroad. One's only choice on Election Day is to try to pick the more competent of two candidates. |
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