required reading

This link is required reading for anyone interested in maintaining their Second Amendment rights, much less their Constitutional rights in general.

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations.

There is another, less known, reason.

During Obama’s tenure, the Joyce Foundation board planned and implemented a program targeting the Supreme Court. The work began five years into Obama’s directorship, when the Foundation had experience in turning its millions into anti-gun “grassroots” organizations, but none at converting cash into legal scholarship.

The plan’s objective was bold: the judicial obliteration of the Second Amendment.

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The Joyce directorate’s plan almost succeeded. The individual rights view won out in the Heller Supreme Court appeal, but only by 5-4. The four dissenters were persuaded in part by Joyce-funded writings, down to relying on an article which misled them on critical historical documents.

Having lost that fight, Obama now claims he always held the individual rights view of the Second Amendment, and that he “respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.” But as a Joyce director, Obama was involved in a wealthy foundation’s attempt to manipulate the Supreme Court, buy legal scholarship, and obliterate the individual right to arms.

Voters who value the Constitution should ask whether someone who was party to that plan should be nominating future Supreme Court justices.

Senator Barack Hussein Obama has no regard for the Constitution. Period. He has already outlined his plan to gut the Second Amendment (on his very own webpage, no less), and he, as both a member of the current Congress, and a candidate for our future President, has been undauntedly attempting to violate the First Amendment. Furthermore, as David pointed out, Senator Barack Hussein Obama is already intent upon appointing Supreme Court Justices who will simply fall in line and do his bidding – “legislating from the bench”, as it were.
America can ill afford having a President with as little regard for the Constitution as this man. Sure, right now he is only apparently focusing on the First and Second Amendments. However, his running mate is already a willing lackey has no idea what the Constitution actually says (and if he does not know what his role in the world is, how can he properly execute it?), and he is already intent on appointing Supreme Court Justices who will follow his instructions… who is to say that his anti-Constitution tendencies will not grow and expand in scope over the span of his possible four years in the Oval Office?