tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post4604503341816152995..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: Judicial Activism is the Conservative Way, Well-Regulated Militias to the ContraryS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-58464304842141674242008-06-27T15:00:00.000-05:002008-06-27T15:00:00.000-05:00E.J. Dionne is an idiot, and I can prove it. He w...E.J. Dionne is an idiot, and I can prove it. He wrote, referring to conservatives and the Heller case, "They argue that they pay careful attention to the precise words of the Constitution. Not in this case..."<BR/><BR/>Well, let us suppose that the 2nd Amendment were not about firearms, but about something different, yet had the same structure: "A well-educated electorate being necessary to the success of a democratic state, the right of the people to read and write books shall not be infringed." Would you suppose that only registered voters had the right to read and write books? Would you suppose that the right to read and write books belonged not to individual persons, but was instead merely a "collective right" of the state? Only an idiot would think such things. Thus, the four justices on the losing side of this decision, and everyone who agrees with them, is an idiot, including Mr. Dionne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com