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1st AMENDMENT PART 1

Details: Published: Thursday, December 29, 2022 12:45; by John Campbell; Hits: 420

The first amendment to the Constitution was written by James Madison and is one of the most important measures of freedom in the world. It gives religious, speech and press freedom that at that time had never been available to anyone in the world. It differentiated the new United States of America from all other counties and set the new country on a course of greatness, The gift of religious freedom to the citizens of this new country was something that they had wished for many years and most of them had come to this country, or their forbearers had for religious freedom. The Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, Congregationalists and even the Roman Catholics. The Pilgrims and Puritans with the Congregationalists were mostly living in the Northeast in Mass, NY, RI and Conn while the Quakers were settled in Penn. The Roman Catholics were mostly in Md with the rest dispersed among the thirteen colonies. It was said that a Quaker that was caught in Virginia for the third time was hanged. The British extracted a tax to support the Church of England which is still true today. Everyone paid the tax whether or not they attended that, Church. The freedom of religion that many of the people came to the new land for was not available. The first amendment corrected that by stating that the state or country would not establish a Church and that citizens could not be forced to not practice their respective religion. It was a freedom that opened the new country to all and any religion without government interference. It was historic at the time and had never been available before to anyone in any country. The religious freedom started in the new Virginia Constitution which was written by Madison and Jefferson and Jefferson's influence pushed Madison to agree to this concept,

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CONFUSION

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Published: Friday, December 23, 2022 15:21

by John Campbell

It's been a while since i have written anything. I was stunned by the midterm elections and did not know what to say without cussing. I'm not sure what people that vote are voting for anymore but do know that a lot of votes were for things that are destroying our country. The cities of New York, Rochester and Buffalo are experiencing very high crime rates that have grown in the last 2 years, but the voters voted for the governor that insists that letting those arrested for heinous crimes be released without bail. We have seen those released repeat their crimes over and over and have committed murder and assault when they should have been behind bars but apparently the majority of voters in New York want this to stay as the status quo. The same problem exists in Maryland with Baltimore and Pennsylvania with Philadelphia, but the voters elected to not do anything about the problem by removing those that have installed the system that gives criminals more freedom than residents. At the same time all of these cities have reduced the police budgets and have prosecuting attorneys that will not charge many of those being arrested. We have seen many shops and drug stores leave cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles because of the shop lifting problem and the lack of politicians and DAs of prosecuting these crimes. If fact stealing less than $1000. is not a crime any more in many cities. I'm confused!

ELECTION BABBLE

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Published: Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:55

by John Campbell

During the last few days we have heard the candidates making their last pleas for our votes. Our president and three former presidents have also, been on the campaign trail trying to help their parties. While one would expect a lot of rhetoric from them I did not expect pure lies and accusations from former presidents and our present president. If you vote republican, you will destroy democracy, you will lose your Social Security and Medicare, etc. Pure hatred and divisiveness when we should be looking at the real problems. This is the party that has decided that a man can have a baby or abortions have been banned and one historian told us that our children would be killed. Felons are being let ot without bail and continuing to commit crimes with two recent murders in New York City. Chicago is seeing shootings and murders in the tens and twenties each week and New Orleans has become the murder capital with more murders per 100,000 people than any other city in America. It takes twelve months of salary to buy eleven months of food, clothing and shelter now but voting against those that are running our country into socialism will destroy democracy. We can't destroy it because they have all ready done that. Voting against the destroyers is the only way to return to some normalcy in our country, reduce crime and stop runaway inflation. Two of our former presidents seem to be ready to continue the destruction and most of the media is enjoying it.

MISINFORMATION

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Published: Monday, October 31, 2022 12:34

by John Campbell

Five years ago I started this BLOG due to the local paper's refusal to print my "Letter to the Editor" that rebutted another letter stating that our founding fathers were happy about the Affordable Care Act. The editor said that I could not rebut a professor emeritus of political science. Her side of the story is all anyone ever heard in this paper. I have tried to present factual information and have labeled my opinion when written as that. This morning I read a letter to the same paper that called the Republican plan put forth for this election as half-truths and lies. She continued to state that they wanted to put women in jail if they had an abortion and forgot that it is up to individual states to write their respective abortion laws. Because of Jan. 6, she states that republicans have no credit in trying to solve the crime problem and that they say the economy is bad because the low unemployment. Apparently, she has not bought eggs at $4or gas at $4 or found out that groceries have risen beyond many peoples' reach to feed their families. The boarder is not open, and the fentanyl problem is only by the citizens bringing it across the border for their own use. Apparently, she is unaware of 100,000 deaths from the drug in 1 year and most are young people. She further states that Trump refused to sign an immigration bill but forgot that he tried to get the democrats to pass a dreamers bill that would lead to citizenship.

PETERBORO, NY

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Published: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 10:41

by John Campbell

Peterboro is a small town between Utica and Syracuse New York. l was born and grew up there and was aware of some of the history that the town was known for. We learned the estate that was across the main street from the village green had been owned by Garret Smith who had been a famous abolitionist. After moving away and finally ending up in West Virginia for the last 45 years I have returned each year to see my parents until their deaths and then my sister that still lives in Rome, NY which is about 30 miles from Peterboro. Each year now my sister and I visit our parents' graves in Peterboro and this year we learned that there was going to be a ceremony and induction into the Abolition Hall of Fame in Oct. We also learned that the Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum were housed in the building we had gone to school in for our first 5 grades. It was a National Historical site as was the Garret Smith estate. Peterboro was on the map and its history of being part of the Underground Railroad was being recognized. I wrote a blog about abolition when I returned home from this trip but have now just returned again from another trip to observe some of the ceremonies around the induction of 3 abolitionists into the Hall of Fame. I had time to renew some older friendships with the people that were aiding and working to make this ceremony a success and others that were working hard to restore the membership in the small Church across the street.

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