Our occasional Look into the World of Whackjobs: #4 - Andy Schlafly (Loooong)

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9. "Vermin News Network"

Thanks for the laughs, that was a great article. And we should all borrow your VNN logo for future dispatches.

I'm still trying to figure out how the World's Smartest Person uses the Fifth Amendment to find Obamacare illegal.

As just about everybody knows, even atheist foreigners, that Amendment is a summary of legal rights: no arrest without indictment, no double jeopardy, no self-incrimination.

The Schlafly legal team is probably referring to the last 2 clauses, about taking of private property.

Which means Andy is just stealing from our anti-tax/anti-govt. nuts, who have been screaming that for years.

They conveniently forget that legislation passed by Congress meets the "due process of law" requirement. Jebus, that's practically the very definition of "due process."

The anti-government loons were a lot more fun back in the 1990s. Especially when they discovered that most American courtrooms displayed the illegal "Admiralty Flag," not the real U.S. Jesus-approved American flag. (The difference being the fringe around the flag, IIRC.) And therefore all legal proceedings in such courtrooms were illegal and non-binding on American citizens.

Anyway, for atheist foreigners and the curious, here's the exact text of the Fifth Amendment. Which is strangely silent on the topic of Kenyan Muslim dictators stealing hard-earned tax money to finance public health care:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.