Former Supreme Court Justice Wants To Add 5 Words To Second Amendment Michael Dorstewitz BIZPAC Review February 23, 2014
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens would like to see five words added to Constitution’s Second Amendment, the result of which would be to destroy its intent, and turn the “right to bear arms” into a mere catchphrase lacking meaning. The Second Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights, reads: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. In his yet-to-be released book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution,” Stevens suggests that the Second Amendment’s sole purpose was protection against an oppressive standing army — not self-protection in the ordinary sense. Stevens said, according to The Blaze. Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands. He suggested the inclusion of five words for clarification, with the “new and improved” Second Amendment reading, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed.” By adding those five words — when serving in the militia — Stevens would remove the teeth from the Second Amendment, rendering it impotent. If it’s clarification Stevens is after, I suggest instead of adding five words, we delete 13 to have it read simply, “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Stevens was appointed to the bench in 1975 by then-President Gerald Ford, and retired in 2010 to be succeeded by Elena Kagan.
Brooklyn Man Says Surveillance Video Shows NYPD Tried To Set Him Up CBS New York February 21, 2014
Fairly Harmless Traffic Accident Got Real In A Hurry For Robert Jackson And Family A Brooklyn man claims he was blamed and framed by police for an accident involving a squad car. He says surveillance video proves he’s innocent, and the officers concocted a story to protect themselves, CBS 2’s Don Champion reported Friday. Robert Jackson said he was saved by the tape. “I was gonna get screwed. I was gonna get railroaded. I knew it,” Jackson said. Surveillance video helped get criminal charges against him dropped. He said he hopes it also helps him win a lawsuit against the city. “What does it prove? I’m just another victim. I’m another victim,” Jackson said. Jackson’s trouble started outside his Brownsville, Brooklyn home last April. He said he was sitting in his parked truck. The surveillance video shows what happened next. An NYPD cruiser is seen driving the wrong way down the street before hitting the back side of Jackson’s truck. “The truck had a little rock to it, so that’s when I seen them backing up,” Jackson said. Jackson is then seen getting out of the truck to check for damage. The officers in the cruiser do the same. Then after exchanging innocent words over the accident for a few minutes, Jackson said the officers arrested him in front of his children. “Next thing you know I see a few cars come so I was like ‘oh no.’ Then they had gloves on and that’s when eight of them approached me,” Jackson said.
In his lawsuit filed Tuesday, Jackson claims the officers lied and said he was driving the truck at the time of the accident. But the surveillance video clearly shows that he wasn’t. “I told him you wrong for that and arresting me in front of my kids like that, and he was like ‘I’m not messing up my $750,000 home over you!’” Jackson said. “It’s their word against my word, and nine times out of 10 I probably would’ve had to plead guilty to something I didn’t do. It’s like that.” In his lawsuit Jackson names not only the city but also the two officers involved. He is seeking unspecified damages. The NYPD wouldn’t comment on the case. The city’s legal department said it had not yet received the lawsuit, but would be reviewing it. Brooklyn Man Says Surveillance Video Shows NYPD Tried To Set Him Up VIDEO BELOW http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/21/brooklyn-man-says-surveillance-video-shows-nypd-tried-toset-him-up/
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