Fighting to preserve our rights one town and one business at a time

Protect our Bill of Rights

Our Constitution and the twenty-seven Amendments, including the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights, protect all Americans from mischief attempted by the Federal, State, and local governments and their unelected bureaucrats. The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, and they are:

The amendments applied equally provide the same protection for all American’s rights, the fourteenth amendment provides this equal protection regardless of state or time of adoption. There is no such concept aside from wishful thinking as a 2nd class right in American jurisprudence.

The Bill of Rights and the Amendments are foundational words from our founding. They can’t be subverted by an unconstitutional law to support a political ambition or as a shortcut to addressing other government failures. Any new law must not contradict the Text of the Constitution and the Amendments as informed by Tradition and History and as clarified by Supreme Court precedent. 

Politicians have become increasingly inept during my lifetime and are more disposed to pandering to their constituency. As a result, presumptively unconstitutional law after unconstitutional law is being passed, and the rights of tens of millions of Americans are infringed even though our Politicians swear an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States.

[Make no mistake, it is incumbent upon the government to ensure their best effort that any proposed law is constrained in its scope and only as necessary to achieve the benefit and that the law will survive constitutional scrutiny.]

Politicians are mostly immune to most normal influences except one. They will do the right thing if the public rises together against their pandering. Therefore in that regard, their continued attacks on the Bill of Rights and law-abiding Americans must end. It makes no difference if there are good reasons or other more fanciful arguments for passing unconstitutional laws.  THEY ARE ALL CATEGORICALLY WRONG, AND THESE LAWS MUST NOT BE TOLERATED AS SHORTCUTS; MAKE NO MISTAKE, THEY ARE SHORTCUTS. IN PLACE, THERE ARE ROBUST, PROVEN METHODS TO PASS AMENDMENTS TO OUR CONSTITUTION, AND SHOULD SUCH AN AMENDMENT BE NEEDED, THEN UTILIZE THAT PROCESS. ANY OTHER METHOD IS TYRANNY IMPOSED BY THE ELITE.

Today I wrote to the Mayor of Naperville about their overreach on the Second Amendment “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State (subordinate clause), the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed (main clause).” and thus interpreted through the lens of 18th century the meaning is clear the People have the personal right to bear Arms.

(More can be learned at Duke Law: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2021/07/the-strange-syntax-of-the-second-amendment/) 

“May 5, 2023

Via email: mayor@naperville.il.us

Dear Mayor Scott Wehrli:

More than a decade ago, George Pradel, then Mayor of Naperville, reached out to Law Weapons and invited them to relocate their thriving business to Naperville. They obliged and since relocating have been a model business citizen, providing comprehensive services to the greater Naperville community, including gun sales and safety education, and even providing services to their police department as requested.  Then in 2022, Naperville rushed to join the mob and ripped the rug from under them by enacting an ordinance that has caused immense hardship and significant financial loss for Law Weapons. 

That action impacts all American’s constitutional rights. Additionally it affects a sizable percentage of Naperville’s residents prohibiting their free exercise of their second amendment rights.  Naperville took this action preemptively with little thought to any benefit or harm or actionable notice to the affected business or even their own financial risk.

I can not support any political body that enacts laws that willfully (make no mistake this is exactly what Naperville did) violates the Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution. In this case, even a layperson can read the holdings in relevant Supreme Court rulings to know Naperville has violated the Bill of Rights of our Constitution. I can think of nothing more egregious.

My family has lived in this area since the early 1900s and has long supported the area’s growth.  That support is no longer possible. Instead, I will be contacting locally owned small businesses that call Naperville home and make clear to them that due to Naperville’s actions, I will no longer patronize their business including car dealers and restaurants for any purpose within the Naperville city limits.  I will be contacting them through any means available, including direct mail and social media to advise them they will now have one less potential customer.  I am aware this statement my elicit grins and giggles from some quarters, and it may well be, but I will use all of the tools that I can marshal to grow this one voice into a legion.

The damage the city of Naperville has done to one man, his family, and his business is immoral, and there must be consequences. I did not know Rob Bevis before Naperville decided to attack him, but I now stand with him and am ready to give support as needed in his fight for survival.

Sincerely,

Richard G. Morton

Ps. Soon I will be contacting about 1,000 locally owned and operated business and let them understand the impact upon their business by Naperville’s overreach and encourage them to let the leaders of Naperville know they must act.” 

More towns and cities will be added to my boycott as warranted. Web site under development – please “bear” with us.