THE SECOND AMENDMENT AMENDED

July 31, 2012

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep Arms, shall not be infringed." Unless the "people" are a foreign nation and that nation is deemed a threat to ourselves or to our allies. Their rights are here and now declared null and void. They shall be disarmed by peaceful and political means and once that is achieved they shall be vanquished by military ones. And if the people suffer in the process let them be damned.

Today President Barack Obama is penalising China's Bank of Kunlun and Iraq's Elaf Islamic Bank for supporting "the increasingly desperate Iranian regime" to access the international financial system. He is not talking about a regime here, but a nation. How dare he gloat in making it desperate? Perhaps he should add a 28th amendment :

Any government we do not like will be automatically be termed a "regime" and it will therefore become a legitimate target for our wrath and that of any other nation we can bully into abiding by our principles. We will defend our interests by any means foul or fair.

President George W Bush possibly really did believe in his bias, but President Obama is beginning to look increasingly like a man who is prepared to sell his convictions for expediency and as such is coming across as an even more unsavoury character.