Friday, February 13, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods More Cruel Jackassery from Our Hero, Stacey Campfield
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Kudos to the bloggers Aunt B and Rachel Walden for dipping into the slime pit of Campfield's legislative agenda to file posts on a couple of his particularly misogynistic bills. (Warning: DO NOT allow your children to read any further here. As Aunt B observes, "... [W]e are about to enter a realm of such cruel jackassery that I almost cannot believe Campfield can walk around and look women in the eye.")
Not only does Campfield want to force women who have abortions to obtain death certificates, he's sponsoring another really weird and creepy law that bars the state from recognizing the fathers of stillborn children of unmarried women. The actual purpose of this latter bill--beyond hateful insult--escapes us. Maybe there is no purpose, except to promote Campfield's idea of family values.
Here's another of this year's Campfield Specials: He'd deny a birth certificate to the child of an illegal immigrant unless the father is a U.S. citizen and makes a written agreement to provide for the child until age 18.
Of course, the suspect constitutionality of any of Campfield's legislation is a matter of no concern to the sponsor. Luckily for us all, he's yet to pass a bill in his entire legislative career, and the House doesn't waste much time talking about his proposals, either. In the past, they've just about all been summarily killed in subcommittees. This year should be not much different, despite a more Republican House. Speaker Kent Williams hates Campfield and his ilk and probably will insist on killing all his bills.
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I like the bill about illegals. Why should their children get automatic rights, when their parents are breaking our laws by being here.
Anonymous, it's not only that the children may be "constitutionally citizens," but that our forefathers recognized many rights of people in general. Rights are negative rights, meaning government is limited to take them away.
Look at the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Humans are given rights by God; the Constituional creates a government that is limited as to how much it can infringe upon those rights.
The first amendment begins "Congress shall make no law..."
The second ends with"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The fourteenth states in part: "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Citizenship may extend some rights and privileges, but our forefathers and their writings acknowledged human rights and created a government that is limited in its ability to abate them.
That is a hilarious picture of Campfield. I never noticed what a gi-normous head the guy has. He looks like a space alien.
Which would explain a lot of his bizarre legislative efforts.
Campfield is one of the Mumpower-Smith boys. Didn't you all know? He's being intiatied into the Robin Smith cult chapter of the Republican Party. He has to prove his allegience by drawing up this kind of stuff or he won't get any help or money from the party for his next election.
