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Posted by W. Edwin Hinds IV on Jan 8, 2010 @ Fed Land
How do you protect yourself from great evil? Invoke the very power of the great evil and hope you get left alone.
On December 24th of '09, Roderick T Long over at Austro-Atheninan Empire informed his readers of what he called a "charming bit of theocratic statist-right propaganda". The propaganda he referred to was an artists rendition of Jesus standing amongst us lesser mortals, holding the Constitution in his right hand. The image portrayed the very false statist assumptions of war being good and a woman's right to choose what happens to her body as evil. It also unfortunately lumped people like Thomas Jefferson with the likes of Hamilton and Lincoln.
The statist jesus image depicts state power as holy. It implies that the evils of government stem solely from the wrong people being in power, politicians who do not follow the word of God. Personally I find that to be a total load of hogwash. The Constitution is far from perfect and is certainly not a divine gift from on high. As a matter of fact, it is the foundation of power that the evil use to enslave the masses. It hands over the responsibility of the individual to the aggregate of the body politic.
With that being said, you can imagine how delighted I was to find a piece of counter-propaganda that was just as rich in symbolism as statist jesus. As a matter of fact, the image is a corrupted version of former. The part that struck me as brilliant was the inclusion of the child reaching up and scrawling the Elder Sign on the blank constitution, with his own blood. The imagery itself is evocative and repulsive, calling it disturbing fails to do it justice. As for its origins, the horrible work of art was posted in the Paranormal board on 4chan. A gift from Anonymous.
If you are unfamiliar with the Elder Sign, I can do some explaining for you. The Elder Sign is a symbol that according to the Cthulu Mythos, protects the person who wields it, from the depredations of the Great Cthulu or his lesser cohorts. It doesn't always work in the literature.
If you are ever faced with the horrors of a Great Old One, you shouldn't put much faith in symbolic gestures. The same is true for the Constitution, it wont extricate you from the corrupt bile that is spewed forth from R'lyeh on the Potomac.
Fun pic
Lincoln looks like he's doing an impression of Al Jolson singing Mammy:
"I'd walk a million miles, for one of your smiles..."
But it's definitely anti-historical. Ben Franklin never stood next to any astronautess.
Lincoln led the country
Lincoln led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis. Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He prevented British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair late in 1861. I always treasure his great contributions to our country. And with him I learn something, "To fight for our freedom". GAR Labs
Sure, the system has many
Sure, the system has many loopholes and imperfect, but at least it is near perfect. It is the people who ran the system that makes it corrupt. No matter how good the structure is if you have somebody rotten who will run it, it will be useless. - Mario Romano Colts Neck
...The Constitution is far
...The Constitution is far from perfect and is certainly not a divine gift from on high...
- I truly agree on this one. Although the Constitution was made and drafted by great minds of men, it is still made by man. That means it is susceptible to human errors and certain biases. This makes man imperfect, so too the Constitution. - Guy Riordan
Bias associated with the
Bias associated with the Constitution is typically introduced by lawmakers throughout US history. Certain people were deemed worthy of being protected by the Constitution, while others were not(visit a museum on slavery or look into oklahoma native american museum or similar places explaining the history of the America's native peoples and see how this bias effected different groups). I don't think that this necessarily means the Constitution itself is fallible, but how those in power interpret it certainly is.
I truly agree on this one.
I truly agree on this one. Although the Constitution was made and drafted by great minds of men, it is Azithromycin uses still made by man. That means it is susceptible to human errors and certain biases. This makes man imperfect, so too the Constitution.
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