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Monday, December 27th, 2010

All Patriots ‘Know’ That Moses Wrote the Constitution

Author:     GARRETT EPPS
Source:     The Atlantic
Publication Date:     Oct 29 2010, 11:58 AM ET
 Link: All Patriots ‘Know’ That Moses Wrote the Constitution
Stephan:   This is appalling. Ignorance combined with hard right politics, and its love of violence, is incendiary. The right seeks to co-opt the Founding period to give itseslf legitimacy, in the process destroying the truth because it is inconvenient. So much about these years has been written that it is easy to become informed. Therefore this must also be seen as Willful Ignorance. You have to work to be this far off the mark. One must fear for a country when this is the pulse of a significant percentage of its people. Garrett Epps is a former reporter for The Washington Post, a novelist and legal scholar. He teaches courses in constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore. He lives in Washington, D.C.

The subject of today’s class is the Constitution, but the discussion keeps veering to various methods of sending Mexicans back where they came from.

Not surprising: Our instructor is Lester Pearce, Arizona Justice of the Peace and brother of Russell Pearce, author of that state’s harshly anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1020 1070. Lester Pearce can’t stop mentioning that Mexicans have begun leaving Arizona since the official persecution began. In fact, Pearce says, he wants to send some Americans to Mexico too. ‘I wrote a bill when I was in the legislature to give [the Gadsden Purchase] back to Mexico, because we had people in Tucson who were socialists.’ Mexico didn’t want them, he says.

We are in the basement of Our Savior’s Way Lutheran Church in Ashburn, Va. It is Saturday, October 23, ten days before the midterm elections. A group of 50 patriots has gathered for a seminar of ‘The Making of America,’ presented by the National Center for Constitutional Studies. NCCS, headquartered in Malta, Idaho, sends speakers across the country to reveal the truth that liberal elites have hidden about the American form of government. The seminar is sponsored by four local groups–a Constitution-oriented meetup in Purcellville, Va., the Loudoun […]

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