{"id":126,"date":"2014-09-11T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:10","slug":"fair-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/fair-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have sworn an oath the support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and you have no idea what that actually means, I&#8217;ll make you a deal.\u00a0 All you have to do is admit that you held up your hand for no reason. Admit that you signed a contract without understanding it and they said there was a paycheck in it for you, so you mouthed the words without knowing, without caring what you were promising, and I will let you go.\u00a0 No strings attached.<\/p>\n<p>Walk away from your job.\u00a0 Walk away from your pension, your retirement, your healthcare plan and all the rest of it, because you lied to get them and they are not rightfully yours.\u00a0 Government service is service, and if you are unwilling to support and defend the Constitution, you are not serving &#8212; you are stealing.<\/p>\n<p>One goal of this site is to allow people who have sworn that oath to take part in discussions about what it means.\u00a0 There are many right answers and there most definitely are wrong answers.\u00a0 One of the wrong answers is &#8220;I don&#8217;t know or care or feel obligated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution need a better class of federal employee, and I bet I know one way to get that.\u00a0 Expose those who do not care about the Constitution, who think the Constitution is fundamentally flawed, who will not support it as it is, instead of how they wish it were. \u00a0Does that sound like a lot of finger-pointing and hair-pulling?\u00a0 Well, we have the text of the law on our side, and we are going to chase you, hound you, harass you, shame you out of your comfortable offices.<\/p>\n<p>So you can call for a fair catch at the 20 yard line.\u00a0 Stop fighting, stop playing, stop obstructing the restoration of this Republic.\u00a0 Lay down your arms and go home in peace.\u00a0 Or get chased home by an angry mob, pitchforks and torches, wolf howling in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>We have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution.\u00a0 We will start with those who in their ignorance or malice have sworn the same oath and who will not uphold it.<\/p>\n<p>Ready set go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"126\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"126\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have sworn an oath the support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and you have no idea what that actually means, I&#8217;ll make you a deal.\u00a0 All you have to do is admit that you held up your hand for no reason. Admit that you signed a contract without understanding it and they said there was a paycheck in it for you, so you mouthed the words without knowing, without caring what you were promising, and I will let you go.\u00a0 No strings attached.<\/p>\n<p>Walk away from your job.\u00a0 Walk away from your pension, your retirement, your healthcare plan and all the rest of it, because you lied to get them and they are not rightfully yours.\u00a0 Government &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/fair-catch\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}