Heads up - Lycos redefining the 2nd Amendment

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Dictionary definition taken directly from the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged, Copyright 1987 by Random House, Inc.

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"Email Alert - I received an email alert from a list that Lycos is attempting, like EnCarta attempted to do, to rewrite the definition of the Second Amendment"
<A HREF="http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipd/A0642495.html"Sec'ond" TARGET=_blank>http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipd/A0642495.html"Sec'ond</A> Amend'ment

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia."

Explain to editor@infoplease.com what militia
means. Is there other dictionaries using the right interpretation that can be recommended?



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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
 
I told them to print the original wording of the Second AMend.

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Thane (NRA GOA JPFO SAF CAN)
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
 
So they're saying the most pre-eminent Constitutional legal scholar in the world, Lawrence Tribe, is dead wrong when he says it guarantees an individual right, and that we're supposed to believe the word "people" means "state national guards" in "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", yet the same word (people) in the amendment before it (the 1st Am), and the amendments after it refers to individual liberties? That the drafters of the BOR used people in the 1st to refer to living breathing human beings, immediately switched meanings of the word people in the second, then reverted back to its original meaning in the following amendments? And that in the Tenth amendment, which refers to powers reserved "to the states, and to the people", which makes a clear distinction between states and people means what it says, but the second which does not refer to states means states even though it says people?

[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited June 01, 2000).]
 
That frosted me INSTANTANEOUSLY! 'Just sent the following: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Dear Lycos,

At the URL http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipd/A0642495.html, I found the following definition:

Sec'ond Amend'ment

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.

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I recommend you correct the definition or clearly state that it is an interpretation not agreed upon by all U.S. citizens. If you don't think defenders of the Second Amendment can get results through consumer pressure and popular reaction, ask CITIBANK. Better yet ask Smith & Wesson of Tomkins PLC.

Regards,

E. Helms
Warner Robins, GA[/quote]Those bastards.

[This message has been edited by sensop (edited June 01, 2000).]
 
Lycos just bought a bad dictionary

if you look it up in their online almanac you get:
Amendment II

[Right of people to bear arms not to be infringed.]

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. http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipa/A0749825.html
 
Lycos ? Is that the same site whose founder
was just arrested for attempted sexual abuse
of a minor....an internet contact.....got
caught in a sting when he went to meet her .
Is this the same Lycos ? Or was that Infoseek ?

[This message has been edited by AL@PA (edited June 01, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
From: Paul Evenson <pevenson@infoplease.com>
To: Paul Evenson <pevenson@infoplease.com>
Subject: Second Amendment Definition in the Dictionary at Infoplease.com
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:58:17 -0400
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)

The dictionary definition for Second Amendment was pulled from the Infoplease.com Web site and sent to the original publisher for review. The Second Amendment entry now links directly to the actual amendments to the Constitution.

Please take a look: http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0642495.html .

Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
[/quote]

Sometimes, the good guys win.
 
Much better!. I also like the summary over the text: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>[Right of people to bear arms not to be infringed.][/quote]

Man! I really went off on that one!

[This message has been edited by sensop (edited June 03, 2000).]
 
To the believers, and defenders of the Constitution, and subsequently the BOR. The meaning "We the People" means us, you and I, we, the citizens.

The phrase, "We the People" has a different connotation to a Socialist, or Communist.
They envision the message as, "We the People's Republik of (insert your State here)". Wherein it's a collective concept, never to be confused with private, or individual capacity.
Since the true Socialist, or Communist doesn't believe, on paper anyway, that anyone has the right to privacy, or possession of anything in a private manner.

But then, that's all hyperbole, since Socialism, and Communism are really State sanctioned slavery rackets.
Everyone has a job(sometimes), gets to eat(sometimes), has a home the State let's them use.
Don't contribute your share of the work, and the "system" may have to recycle your body parts to the fertilizer plant, making sure you truely contribute your very last, for "The People".

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms;
History shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
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"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, and destroy their rugged- ness.
Get control of all means of publicity, and thereby get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities.
Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance."

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, former leader of USSR

[This message has been edited by Donny (edited June 03, 2000).]
 
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