Oh look, what’s this I see on the Vermont Republican Party’s website? Why, it’s an invitation to attend VERMONT’S CONSTITUTION DAY EVENT (caps theirs) on September 14th in St. Albans. The proceedings will include patriotic music, food, a raffe, “other attractions” (same-sex kissing booth?) plus a very special Keynote Speaker: KrisAnne Hall, “Constitutional Lawyer and National Radio Talk Show Host” from Florida.
Who is KrisAnne Hall, you may ask?
Well, she used to be an assistant state’s attorney in Florida. She was fired in 2010 for giving political speeches at Tea Party rallies “educating ‘citizen groups’ about the Constitution,” and defying her boss’ order that she stop doing so. She used her firing as a springboard into a new career as a public speaker and living martyr for the Cause.
I can describe her place on the political spectrum with one posting on the homepage of her website, in which she declares war on the Republican Party.
Yes, the Republican Party is way too squishy for her. She thinks the Census is unconstitutional, that America has “taken a hard turn” away from liberty toward collectivism, that we’ve lost our way because we’ve turned out backs on the Christian God. She believes that the Constitution somehow “ended slavery” even as it established slavery in the foundation of our nation. Her beliefs appear to be roughly equivalent to Ron Paul on a bad day.
Right in tune with Vermont’s political scene, no?
To be fair, this is not officially a VTGOP event; its organizer is “American Conservative Women in Action,” which is apparently a very small group (12 “Likes” on Facebook!) based in St. Albans. But the VTGOP is publicizing the event on its website, and party chair “Angry Jack” Lindley gave it a plug in his weekly e-mail to party members.
Ladies and gentlemen, your Vermont Republican Party, still clueless about how to broaden its appeal.
when one of the local hard-right ladies asked the City to endorse the event and declare “Constitution Day in St. Albans.”
For all my differences with the City Council, I am glad to say they didn’t take the bait, even after she scolded them for not being “patriotic” and went on and on about “how could anybody be against the Constitution?”
They did a good job of teasing out of her the information that this gal would be the keynote, despite her attempt to sound all innocent and force them to defend themselves; and they finally got her to more or less admit to a political agenda.
Tim Hawkins even went so far as to ask if everyone, even homosexuals would be welcome at her event. This kind of took her aback, and she flustered for a minute before maintaining that, yes, of course everyone would be welcome, But it wasn’t very convincing.
Finally, they just told her that, as in the past, they would extend to her the same privilege they would to any group that asked: permission to hold their event in the park with the understanding that the City does not endorse it in any way.
She left in a huff and later sent a letter to the Messenger griping about how unpatriotic the City is.
I love these “Census is unconstitutional” types.
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I know KrisAnne and she travels all over the country at her own expense to teach people that want to learn.
To sum up about slavery, in 1655 a black free man was awarded a black slave known as “John Casor” (look it up), so over 100 years before America was formed England had legalized slavery here. Of course you don’t about 500,000 white Irish slaves England sent over before our independence either. Do you even know some countries in the Middle East STILL have slaves today? Our founders started battling slavery when they we writing the Constitution in 3/5 clause. The 3/5’s clause limited the number of Representatives in Congress from slave holding States so they would have a chance to vote it down someday. Slaves where expensive (about like a car today) and it was going to be a battle to take them away from their owners. But in less than 100 years the Republican Abraham Lincoln did eliminate it.
The Constitution wasn’t just pulled out of a hat. Millions of people died in the years before it trying to find a good form of government. Our founders studied history and tried not to make the same mistakes over and over again. Now that we don’t know the history of the Constitution we are doing the same stupid things over again thinking it will work. People died and suffered in England so we could have a Bill of Rights to protect us. Oh, but I guess you don’t know about the “English Bill of Rights of 1689” because you will not listen to some nutbar.
There is a reason the Constitution is not taught in schools. I am a 1/2 Native American, who believes that the principles of the Constitution and the principles of our Founding Fathers, regarding individual rights, liberty, self-governance, limited government, capitalism, and their opposition to central banks, are “not” far-right beliefs spouted by far right “nutbar’s”.
I think many in England in 1776, thought and felt that our Founding Fathers were far right nutbars also, but the principles they instituted are what make this country great and just because there have been many people and institutions over the course of the last 200 years who have violated those principles, does not mean we should abandon those principles to the concepts of socialism and communism.
What it means is we need to re-commit to those principles and work towards their return to American.