Wait till you hear how they define "is"

Check out this gem from earlier this year.

from WorldNetDaily:
ACLU's absurd definition of 'the people'
By William J. Federer (the American Minute guy)
Posted: March 29, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

There are two ways to change laws.

One way is tedious. You have to get a majority of citizens to share your views, motivate them to vote for representatives, get a majority of the representatives to vote for a bill, then get the president to sign it.

The other way to change laws is easy. You simply get activist judges to change the definitions of words that are in existing laws.

On March 18, the Supreme Court heard the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), a case regarding the Second Amendment, which 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."

The ACLU argued that the term "the people" should have its definition changed to mean "the state militia," as the ACLU website states under the section "Gun Control":

"We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias. … The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns."

Using the ACLU's new definition of "the people," the Second Amendment would read:

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people 'the state militia' to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The absurdity of the ACLU's definition of "the people" is revealed when its definition is applied to the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights:

PREAMBLE: We the people "the state militias" of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union … establish this Constitution. ...

ARTICLE 1, SECTION 2: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second year by the people "the state militias." …

FIRST AMENDMENT: Congress shall make no law … abridging … the right of the people "the state militias" peaceably to assemble …

FOURTH AMENDMENT: The right of the people "the state militias" to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. …

FIFTH AMENDMENT: No person "state militia" shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment of indictment of a grand jury. …

NINTH AMENDMENT: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people "the state militias." ...

10th AMENDMENT: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people "the state militias."

18th AMENDMENT: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people "the state militias."…

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Of course, when push came to shove, the supreme robed ones, who would have made the First Century rulers of Israel proud, upheld the individual right interpretation. By one vote. That swing vote being Kennedy, who it is said, upheld the meaning of the Second Amendment as explained by Madison and others ONLY because it wasn't time yet to overturn it. There would be, he is reputed to have said, too much bloodshed now. The change should be delayed to a later time.

Such are the guardians of the republic.