{"id":38,"date":"2013-03-09T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T06:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:11","slug":"things-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/things-have-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Have Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings. \u00a0I am no longer a Republican. \u00a0I am certainly not a Democrat. \u00a0Neither am I a member or supporter of the Libertarian party or the Constitution Party. \u00a0I support no candidate and I oppose no candidate. \u00a0I am no longer a partisan political supporter of anybody. \u00a0 If I mention names, it is only is far as they carry ideology in support of or in hazard to our Constitution. \u00a0I make my own decisions. \u00a0I know how to read the Constitution, I know how to think, and I know what duties are laid before me. \u00a0 I support and defend the Constitution, and this means that I necessarily oppose those who endanger it.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is currently in a Constitutional crisis, which succinctly has the following core: if there is popular support for lawlessness and anti-Constitutional acts by elected and appointed officials, what duty is laid on those who still will \u201csupport and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic\u201d? \u00a0Can elections outweigh laws? \u00a0Can acts of Congress outweigh the Constitution? \u00a0That is, with the Constitution as the foundation of our laws and the consent of the governed as our government\u2019s claim to sovereignty, can that consent do away with our Constitution?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it can, as we are seeing before our eyes, but then what is the duty of those who are sworn to uphold or to support and defend that Constitution? \u00a0More to the point, what protection is available to those who defend the Constitution against the depredation of an ill-educated populace and an avaricious government? \u00a0Certainly, there is no refuge to be found in \u201cI was only following orders\u201d, yet this is what many well-intended but ignorant government servants would say. \u00a0This is not only their last, but often their first recourse in argument, that the orders of the President and so on should outweigh the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who see this as a matter of fidelity to oath and duty to Constitution are not in the mood for the shenanigans from the left or from the right. \u00a0It is not partisan to identify and address the threats to the Constitution \u2014 if this is not done, then there can be no defense.<\/p>\n<p>And there must be a defense. \u00a0No politician gets my support without placing first among his duties the support and defense of the Constitution.<\/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=\"38\" 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=\"38\" 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>Greetings. \u00a0I am no longer a Republican. \u00a0I am certainly not a Democrat. \u00a0Neither am I a member or supporter of the Libertarian party or the Constitution Party. \u00a0I support no candidate and I oppose no candidate. \u00a0I am no longer a partisan political supporter of anybody. \u00a0 If I mention names, it is only is far as they carry ideology in support of or in hazard to our Constitution. \u00a0I make my own decisions. \u00a0I know how to read the Constitution, I know how to think, and I know what duties are laid before me. \u00a0 I support and defend the Constitution, and this means that I necessarily oppose those who endanger it.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is currently in a Constitutional crisis, which succinctly has the following &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/things-have-changed\/\"> 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-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}