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Re: Should State Officials Receive Qualified Immunity for Creatively Resisting Bruen?

Arguably trying to use State authority to circumvent 2nd and 14th Amendment guarantees of the individual right to keep and bear arms constitutes insurrection against the United States and should face the following penalty:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

-14th Amendment Section 3

Myself, I am inclined to seize all legislators, judges, and LEO's who try to pass,sustain, and/or enforce unconstitutional laws (for example, trying to weasel around Bruen.) as enemy combatants and taking them to be detained in Gitmo, giving the people of their state no choice except armed resistance with guns they don't legally own if they wish to support their political leaders. However, I realize this is a bit extreme.

Albert Perez
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Note: Refers to this article: Should State Officials Receive Qualified Immunity for Creatively Resisting Bruen?, which I mentioned in last week's Editor's Notes — Editor

Non-woke grammar

I was shocked to read, in the blurb for "Ares", this:

"While humanity is spreading their wings, ..."

What's going on here? Woke pseudo-grammar in The Libertarian Enterprise? Say it isn't so!!!

Or is the blurb writer a Brit? In the USA at least, words like "humanity" are grammatically singular, so "its wings" is correct.

It's one thing to see grammar perverted among the Left, quite another matter to see the Good Guys do it too. Mess with a lefty, use the proper singular pronouns. And also remember that "his" is the grammatically correct pronoun not just for specifically masculine subjects, but also for ones of unknown gender.

Paul Koning
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Alas, your humble editor did not want to edit a publisher's blurb. Can we blame it on the atrocious state of the government school system and its former inmates? — Editor

Re: Heaven and Hell

“Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

With the exception of the Caryatid, all of these examples reflect a voluntary choice. The Liberal's dissatisfaction is that they cannot make virtue, their definition of virtue, mandatory, that to be virtuous an act must be voluntary. Feeding the other guy is fun, is your heaven, because you choose to do so. Being forced to do so is hell.

Albert Perez
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The letter refers to Sarah Hoyt's article in the last TLE. — Editor