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To: pocotrader who wrote (1256189)	8/22/2020 11:34:09 PM
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The United States is a constitutional republic. Canada is an aristocracy of special interests and distinct societies where a corrupt Laurentian liberal clown is king-pin. "The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule . . . a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights . . . . The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights." "Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals—that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government—that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens’ protection against the government." "Ours was the first government based on and strictly limited by a written document—the Constitution—which specifically forbids it to violate individual rights or to act on whim. The history of the atrocities perpetrated by all the other kinds of governments—unrestricted governments acting on unprovable assumptions—demonstrates the value and validity of the original political theory on which this country was built." "A complex legal system, based on objectively valid principles, is required to make a society free and to keep it free—a system that does not depend on the motives, the moral character or the intentions of any given official, a system that leaves no opportunity, no legal loophole for the development of tyranny. The American system of checks and balances was just such an achievement. And although certain contradictions in the Constitution did leave a loophole for the growth of statism, the incomparable achievement was the concept of a constitution as a means of limiting and restricting the power of the government." Ayn Rand Lexicon

To: pocotrader who wrote (1256189)	8/23/2020 1:19:56 AM
From: Winfastorlose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576378

Film producer speaks on child sex abuse in Hollywood… Movie producer John Paul Rice ( Juno, Remember the Titans) laments the situation in Hollywood, which accused of being a “hidden layer” that openly engages in “child abuse.” “When the MeToo movement started in 2017 I reached out to several of my female actress friends who were prominent in LA, many of you would know them by name… and I said ‘What about the children?’ and the response was ‘We know, we know’ but they were silent on it.” “And it destroyed me because it destroyed my allusion of what rights, human rights were, children’s rights were. This is a child abuse system that we have been living in for a very long time and it’s been allowed to go on. I will not be silent about this… The people on television who smile at you, who tell you stories, who give you news, are the ones who hide all of this from us.”