June 29, 2008   As Ecuadoreans are told the biggest, most manipulative lie that their central government actually cares about the citizenry, when the citizenry cares nothing for its community nor its fate, we pause today to express our gratitude to the voice of the highest legitimization of the history of Western Civilization called national constitutions under rule of law, Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. You should too. This simple man from Trenton, New Jersey speaks truth to power in defining the essentials of liberty in law. Scalia details how mankind can enjoy the blessings of normative life under law or can self destruct by abandoning the very graces bestowed upon each. Nations with badly written, excessive constitutions never do well. Nations who do not uphold their own constitutional law are irresponsible and deserve all the shame that mankind can heap upon them.
 
In what started out to be a simple law suit appeal to defend the near-socialist, dysfunctional and exceedingly corrupt District of Colombia local government (currently running about 90% US Democrats with the worst crime record in the U.S. nation and the most eternally failing school system run by corrupt union leaders as well as a local tax office which has defrauded millions of dollars internally with not one prosecution) long standing ban on the right of citizens to own even a simple hand gun [ this long standing ban on any one owning a gun has not reduced violence or murder or crime in DC]. The D.C. government was challenged to prove that its local law was not in abeyance of the U.S. federal laws, notably delineated in the U.S. constitution, often called rights of the citizens, in this case the right to own a gun. As with the U.S. high court, any right under law is always the issue. This case is massively important for its protection of even handed constitutional rights of all men. First of all it provides anyone- anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear- a short history of true human and civil rights- how we got there and how a few brave men stand united yet to defend and protect Western Civilization. It is a free history, courtesy of the U.S. tax payers, called the Heller case and the full text can also be accessed. Here is the shorter version.
 
Pay attention here: Ecuador's 500++ section constitution is supposedly being re written although Rafael Correa has already told us that this was prepared long ago and that the overpaid fools in Montecristi are simply making us believe that they are drafting a new constitution when most of the Asambleistas are either busy money laundering money for the FARC or themselves or kicking other male members physically in the groin [to put it politely] or yapping away on their cell phones. These are not serious people and most would not know a constitution if it hit them on the head. More importantly, they could care less about the integrity of what they do here and now. Not once- not once- have any Ecuadoreans even thought about bringing in constitutional scholars. And in fact, even Justice Scalia would advise if asked politely. But oh no- Ecuadoreans want us all to believe that their fake communist manifesto is a glorious 500 plus text which will bring new democracy to all Ecuadoreans. What they do here now is not new and it is not democracy.
 
But Scalia gives us a road map for the higher reaches of mankind under rule of law, which Ecuador neither has nor holds today and does not want to have or hold tomorrow. Ecuadoreans only want a socialist nanny state which tells one and all what to do and how to do while sucking all individual rights out of mankind. This is what Ecuadoreans have been bred for since birth: to be the perfect idiots- manipulative and delusional and exhibiting not one tenant of integrity in their unending pursuit of deceit. Rafael Correa is the perfect president for all Ecuadoreans as he epitomizes this unending misery caused by dishonesty which will soon be voted in by all Ecuadoreans as the mirror of their very souls. The Ecuadorean constitution of Rafael Correa will end all liberties and rap Ecuadoreans in an unending road with No Way Out. This is called communism. It is also called living life exactly as your mother taught you: to be manipulative, to depend on someone else's money and never prepare yourself to stand on your own two feet. You get what you want in Ecuador and what you have has no semblance of the higher social relations indicated by Justice Scalia when he speaks of the guarantees for each man, woman or child - a liberty in law. No indeed- Ecuadoreans are handing themselves no liberties with no real law except the law of the opaque, the draconian uber state and the unending nightmare that no liberties are given by God but parsed out by the Bolivarian state at their whim and if and only if you sucked up to Correa or Chavez in their extortion crime sprees.
 
If you like living life inside a state Extortion Racket, then you will handily support Correa's new constitution.
If you care one modicum about decency, your Christian values, your children and your true sovereignty, then you should turn off your soap operas and get out of the shopping mall and study the Heller Case for all its Constitutional truths. Know that under Scalia's moral courage, the USA defended its own constitution which is constantly under attack to dumb its essential meaning down to irrelevancy, as seen in the George Soros-backed legal team and NGO backed support for the DC position against the constitution. At least some few men stood up for Western Civilization as the Soros assault on what should be considered sacrosanct continues unabated. The USA did not roll over this time. But Ecuador did not even whimper as the well heeled tanks of disarming democracy's tenants rolled through Quito and set up criminal cartel legalizing constitution blessing shops in the hollow canyons of the Alfaristas and FARC minions called Montecristi. And consider that the new constitution of Ecuador neither has nor holds one shred of any tenant of freedom's truths. But it could.
 
Ecuadoreans can politely tell these Asambleistas and all their overpaid US AID and George Soros [also called the U.S. Democratic Party] fake democracy actors to resign and go away. You can instead request functional and honorable actors to rebuild normative law and order and democracy in Ecuador- not fake democracy under communism. Clearly the USA has a few still left however much today none are working inside Ecuador. 
 
Ecuadoreans happily have forgotten and today have been taught to devalue - their history. The current circumstance, where all Ecuadoreans have passively acceded over time to giving up the freedoms and liberties hard earned by their progenitors. One of the freedoms that Ecuadoreans  held for almost two centuries was an individual right to free speech and open media.  That right has been extinguished over the past four years to its current state of undemocratic premature death. This is at variance with America, yet both the USA and Ecuador started from relatively similar places in 1776 and with the birth of the Republic of Ecuador a few decades later. In the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, Justice Scalia explained the British history and the history of constitutional democracy.
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This from Justice Scalia's shortened road through history, seen in the opinion in Heller:

. . . Between the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution, the Stuart Kings Charles II and James II succeeded in using select militias loyal to them to suppress political dissidents, in part by disarming their opponents. Under the auspices of the 1671 Game Act, for example, the Catholic James II had ordered general disarmaments of regions home to his Protestant enemies. These experiences caused Englishmen to be extremely wary of concentrated military forces run by the state and to be jealous of their arms. They accordingly obtained an assurance from William and Mary, in the Declaration of Right (which was codified as the English Bill of Rights), that Protestants would never be disarmed: “That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.” This right has long been understood to be the predecessor to our Second Amendment. It was clearly an individual right, having nothing whatever to do with service in a militia. To be sure, it was an individual right not available to the whole population, given that it was restricted to Protestants, and like all written English rights it was held only against the Crown, not Parliament. But it was secured to them as individuals, according to “libertarian political principles,” not as members of a fighting force.

By the time of the founding [i.e., the drafting of the U.S. Constitution in 1789], the right to have arms had become fundamental for English subjects. Blackstone, whose works, we have said, “constituted the preeminent authority on English law for the founding generation,” cited the arms provision of the Bill of Rights as one of the fundamental rights of Englishmen. His description of it cannot possibly be thought to tie it to militia or military service. It was, he said, “the natural right of resistance and selfpreservation,” and “the right of having and using arms for selfpreservation and defence.” Other contemporary authorities concurred. Thus, the right secured in 1689 as a result of the Stuarts’ abuses was by the time of the founding understood to be an individual right protecting against both public and private violence. And, of course, what the Stuarts had tried to do to their political enemies, George III had tried to do to the colonists. In the tumultuous decades of the 1760’s and 1770’s, the Crown began to disarm the inhabitants of the most rebellious areas. That provoked polemical reactions by Americans invoking their rights as Englishmen to keep arms. A New York article of April 1769 said that “[i]t is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence.” They understood the right to enable individuals to defend themselves. As the most important early American edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries (by the law professor and former Antifederalist St. George Tucker) made clear in the notes to the description of the arms right, Americans understood the “right of self-preservation” as permitting a citizen to “repe[l] force by force” when “the intervention of society in his behalf, may be too late to prevent an injury.”

There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms. . . .

Listen up here: today in Ecuador you have no constitution and no legal representation and no free speech and no rights and no protection under law. You are living inside a vacuum created solely by your own laziness, dishonesty and irresponsibility - which is of your own making and it is....repulsive. Thus an Ecuadorean lives under a tyranny of sorts today. Without any recognized Constitution, and with congress marched out at gunpoint  over a year ago  with Correa and his pals having claimed for itself unlimited sovereignty, there are no permanent rights in Ecuador. Thus today you have in Ecuador a populace that has not only been largely robbed of any civil or human right, but a populace wherein the law abiding among them are prevented from acting under normative law because the law of Correa is to legalize all that should be illegal. Even carrying the innocuous support for anti-corruption laws is illegal under Correa and will get you into big trouble, if not under summary judgment.

And then of course there is the penultimate tyrannical act. In what amounts to a self coup, the current Bolivarian-Iranian government of Ecuador has broken its promise to the people of Ecuador, given but two years ago, to give the people a vote in the decision to expand the sovereignty of Ecuador and increase civil rights  but instead Correa and Chavez forced Ecuadoreans to become a province in a socialist and anti-democratic Andean proxy superstate. By this act, and in the even larger sense that this transfer of sovereignty severly and forever more degrades the democratic right of the Ecuadorean people to choose their government, Correa and his Hezbollah team members  evinces utter disdain for the liberty of  the people of Ecuador. And with that in mind, one more passage from Justice Scalia's decision is relevant:

 “This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty . . . . The right to self-defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” . . .

ECrisis continues to ask: who defends your liberties- the Correa-Chavez-Hezbollah state?  Your family? Where do you turn for defense of your freedoms? Who do you look to-Iran? Cuba? Chavez and Correa? We remind:  "those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it."

Here is Venezuela defending the Venezuelan-Ecuadorean-Bolivian bloc of nations, also called a large ship of fools:
 
Special thanks to Daniel at Salon.com for this superb on the ground photo of what Venezuela really is today: a nation that in 6 years has not once prosecuted legally any single lawbreaker of the Chavez totalitarian state:
                       
When all the clowns in Venezuela want to run the circus;         



Somehow the picture above reflects what is happening in Venezuela much better than any words I can put together.  It was taken on Tuesday during the parade in Campo de Carabobo, in celebration of the battle that gave the country its independence.

While we understand that all Ecuadoreans today are seriously embarrassed by their own vapid and lazy excuses for failing to serve to protect and defend their own humanity, we are long past weary of pointing fingers and note that there is plenty of blame to go around. But Ecuadoreans are not even embarrassed in general yet....they are still stuck pretending that each is blameless and that their right to be arrogant, vapid and undereducated is holy. Being stupid by choice is a sin- an evil against one's own upbringing. And it is no longer clever or cute or coy to choose to be stupid or blame anyone else. It is time for the hard work. Ecuadoreans do truly look just like the man pictured above. Only in this time, Ecuadoreans are waving in… welcoming in ... Chavez's arms of destruction which Correa calls Ecuador's sovereign right to self defense. We remind: today no one wants Ecuador.. Like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Libya and Iran, these dead zones are far too expensive for anyone to seriously desire any nominal interest in such lazy, selfish lands which are way in debt and unprepared by choice to self govern or self employ.

To be sure, cleaning up Iraq was too expensive and is possibly the last remedial zone which occurred as a proxy line to stop Iran's evil spread in the Middle East because Middle Easterners would not perform their own tasks. So rather than risk watching even more nations succumb to the spread of Iran's wet dream called totalitarianism under law, the West perforced a line in that sand. We hope it holds. Today one half of Latin America hopes that it does not and as such hopes to speed the day of totalitarianism.

Meanwhile, on June 28, 2008, el fascist Rafael Correa took after a small issue- that of the right of all citizens to have and hold due process under law- habeas corpus. This is an essential human right which Rafael Correa denounces. Correa, while freeing all drug dealers and drug runners [inexplicably calling himself anti drugs when nothing could be further from the truth], orders whole hordes of Ecuadoreans scooped up and imprisoned with no rights, no charges, no trials and no way out if they do not bow to his extortionist demands. Tragically not one Ecuadorean lifted one finger to help the numerous scores -thousands- wrongly imprisoned in Correa's hell holes.

Thor Halverson's Human Rights Foundation took umbrage with one provincial leader's imprisonment by Correa and more recently Correa's new tax law which bars equal justice under law. For this, these New Yorkers -read their letters to Correa here- got the brunt of Correa's vast anger yesterday as he denounced truth tellers over and over. And more tragically, not one- not one- Ecuadorean stood up to defend truth tellers. The silence is deafening. Correa's denouncing of freedom is not a whimper -listen to Correa's own words here- from yesterday's radio show. You cannot make this stuff up nor can you any longer cover up the dark crimes against his own people by Correa. You can read about it here from HOY.

You can also decide right now to hang together with people of good intentions, with some general normative learning and brave hearts or you will surely hang alone.

To do this you must destroy your mandate to manipulative living off of someone else's money and stand for functional decency- not the lazy expectations that someone else will do for us what each of us is called by God to do for ourselves to defend the essentials of what God has endowed us with by design which are the essential freedoms. If we do not defend what God has given us, we abandon that very God and his graces. If such lawlessness and godlessness is your goal, you will really like George Soros and the Iranian mullahs. Just check out the homeland called Zimbabwe or Lebanon- it is theirs today. Soon it will be replicated in Ecuador which will look like what you want: Zimbabwe and Lebanon. Sometimes you get what you want by stamping your adolescent feet and screeching. But whenever we give in to demands from spoiled rotten petty tyrants, we never get anything honest, endearing or sustainable. And that is the truth. Because by enabling the dishonest, we sell out the honest. Think about it. And act. You can invite Scalia to help with the "new" constitution. Or you can pretend that liberty under law will magically happen by lying to yourself and others. You can also lie some more and commit even more fraud by claiming that communists such as Sr. Viciano Pastor and his Chavistas have handed you liberty. They have not and will never do so. You have been handed a fraud. What will you do about it?

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis