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MUST READ! Senator Brenda Councils view of the 2nd Amendment. OMG!!

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Dan W:

--- Quote from: Chris Z on May 13, 2009, 09:08:52 PM ---Dan-

Did you ever get a response from Senator Council?????????


Well done sir!

--- End quote ---

......crickets chirping...nothin yet

ranger04:
Do senators take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and the State of Nebraska? While many people "interpert" the constituions(s) to mean what theysay, I believe the constution(s) mean what the constitution(s)  says. I also believe that if a person disagrees with one clause of the constituion then that person also has to disagree with the rest of the constiuiton. I do not believe that the constiutuion is a pick and chose document. If a person who has taken an oath to defend the constution, fails to deend all of the constituition then that person has violated their oath and should be removed from office.

Dan W:
 Section 11-101.01
Oath of office; state and political subdivisions; employees; form.

All persons in Nebraska, with the exception of executive and judicial officers and members of the Legislature who are required to take the oath prescribed by Article XV, section 1, of the Constitution of Nebraska, who are paid from public funds for their services, including teachers and all other employees paid from public school funds, shall be required to take and subscribe an oath in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths in this state, and file same with the Department of Administrative Services, or the county clerk of the county where such services are performed, which oath shall be as follows:

I, .........., do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or for purpose of evasion; and that I will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of the office of .......... according to law, and to the best of my ability. And I do further swear that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence; and that during such time as I am in this position I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence. So help me God.

Source:

      Laws 1951, c. 206, ? 1, p. 765

      Laws 1967, c. 35, ? 1, p. 158


~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska
 




XV-1 Official oath; refusal; disqualification. Executive and judicial officers and members of the legislature, before they enter upon their official duties shall take and subscribe the following oath, or affirmation. "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of Nebraska, and will faithfully discharge the duties of .......... according to the best of my ability, and that at the election at which I was chosen to fill said office, I have not improperly influenced in any way the vote of any elector, and have not accepted, nor will I accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing from any corporation, company or person, or any promise of office, for any official act or influence (for any vote I may give or withhold on any bill, resolution, or appropriation)." Any such officer or member of the legislature who shall refuse to take the oath herein prescribed, shall forfeit his office, and any person who shall be convicted of having sworn falsely to, or of violating his said oath shall forfeit his office, and thereafter be disqualified from holding any office of profit or trust in this state unless he shall have been restored to civil rights.
Source

   1. Neb. Const. art. XIV, sec. 1 (1875);
   2. Transferred by Constitutional Convention, 1919-1920, art. XV, sec. 1.


Annotations

Violation of judicial oath aggravates offense of disregarding oath as a lawyer. State ex rel. Nebraska State Bar Assn. v. Conover, 166 Neb. 132, 88 N.W.2d 135 (1958).

County judge is required to take oath of constitutional officers. State ex rel. Nebraska State Bar Assn. v. Wiebusch, 153 Neb. 583, 45 N.W.2d 583 (1951).

Exact form of oath to be taken by executive and judicial officers and members of Legislature is prescribed. State ex rel. Johnson v. Chase, 147 Neb. 758, 25 N.W.2d 1 (1946).

A judicial officer is required to take and subscribe to the oath prescribed by this section. Duffy v. State ex rel. Edson, 60 Neb. 812, 84 N.W. 264 (1900).

wrenrj1:
People who live in cities with gang violence and higher crime rates in lower income areas traditionally vote anti-gun.  Council is no different.  They see the way to end the violence is to outlaw/eliminate firearms.  We're too far down that road for that to ever happen.  They can't get past the last gang shooting, or the occasional accidental discharge and use these issues to support their position. 

Sure, eliminate firearms.  Bad guys will still use em, and when they're all gone they'll use bow and arrows, rocks, silverware, etc. After all, they're bad guys.  I'm sure we can eliminate all those too if certain people interpret the 2nd amendment in a particular way.

There's always going to be dissenting opinions, as we have a senator or two who voted against the bill here in Lincoln, luckily the majority vote on this issue was overwhelming.  That's got to tell you something.

bkoenig:
It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Ernie would pick an anti-2A person to be his successor.  We're just lucky that she's ineffective.  That's a lot better than when Ernie was there.

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