Stupid Outdated Constitution

I think it is time someone speaks up in favor of the US Constitution and not as a critic.  When the NRA was finally able to get the courage to actually bring the matter of gun ownership to the attention of the Supreme Court, I waited quietly for their decision.  In all of the huffing and puffing that both sides have demonstrated on the issue, this was the FIRST time that the NRA decided to test their stand in court.  I was not surprised that this Court voted in their favor since it is top loaded with some rather extreme activist Judges as evidenced by other decisions oozing out of their minds.  In the end, they decided that our fore fathers meant for all Americans to be armed to the teeth as a matter of self-protection.  In reading the various documents of that era, it was pretty obvious that arming themselves as a "well regulated militia" was designed to provide a ready reserve military arm to counter threats from the government and from foreign intrigues.  As much as I disagreed with this decision, I respected the Court's authority in this matter and began my own style of peaceful protest.  I do not own a firearm so the forearm companies will starve if they are depending on me.  I will not remain in a retail outlet if someone enters bearing an openly displayed weapon and I tell management why I am leaving.  If their business is more preferential than mine, so be it.  If I see someone with an openly displayed weapon enter a Federal facility (Federal Courthouse, Federal lands, etc.), I report the violation immediately to the police.  I am a real nuisance but all I am doing is obeying the law and assuring that the law gets obeyed by others.  You see, I really appreciate the presence of the US Constitution and it's legal arbiter, the Supreme Court.  Keeping this personal position in mind, I find our lawmaker's latest assault on this wonderful document to be not only abhorrent but bordering on treason since they are attacking the basis for which this nation was formed.  I am speaking of the assault on the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution which was first proposed on 13 June 1866 in the ashes of the Civil War.  It was ratified by 2/3^rd of our Congress two years later on 9 July 1868.  This was not, therefore, rush to judgment but the result of due deliberation.  Our forefathers knew what the impact of this law would be and voted it into law.  At the time there was great concern that we would turn into a mongrel nation and that a flood of Chinese workers would overwhelm our electorate.  In actuality, the thrust of the law was to provide citizenship privileges to slaves recently released slaves from the former Confederate States by noting simply that "All persons born or naturalized in  the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State in which they reside."  Pretty simple language and the various predictions of overwhelmed electorates never came about.  It has been the law of the land for almost 150 years and has served us well.  As noted in the above quote from the Amendment, diplomats would not have their children covered since they are not "subject to the jurisdictions" of the United States.  Now several Congressmen from several States want us to change the 14^th Amendment to preclude children of undocumented aliens from being considered as US citizens.  Unless your white hood has baked your mind in the hot sun, it is obvious who this change movement is meant to target – our Latino/a brothers and sisters from the South.  12,000,000 illegals will marry and have kids and these kids will then become a voting bloc.  If you have spent a career opposing the presence of these people in a nice white America, such a voting bloc could present a real job security threat.  Do you think "illegal" Canadians worry about their kids being accepted as Americans?  I doubt it.  This effort to push for changes in the 14^th Amendment did not occur until we started seeing more and more Hispanic surnames holding office in the various States throughout this country.  OMG, if we don't do something quick, democracy will enable almost anyone to hold public office and majority groups will now be able to set policy.  We simply cannot have such a situation in a democracy so let's alter our perception of what constitutes a democracy.  We should be very proud of these lawmakers since they have taken the stand that they and only they really know what was going through our fore fathers's minds. We probably need to begin looking at freedoms of religion next since those evil Moslems want to build a Mosque on private lands in New York "near" ground zero.  After that let's check out freedoms of the press, speech and protections of our persons places or things – you can never be too careful you know.