Funny
The National Anti- Quartering Association, America’s foremost Third Amendment rights group, held its annual gala in Washington Monday to honor 191 consecutive years of advocating the protection of private homes and property against the unlawful boarding of military personnel.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Funny, I was just thinking about that. I plan to to start an anti-anti-quartering group, I’m calling it “Reasonable Accomodation Inc.”.
As a group we do not believe that the Founding Fathers could have foreseen todays “High Capacity” homes with spare bedrooms available for anytime high speed occupancy. At a time, when the government faces fiscal crisis on so many fronts, we see a need for Reasonable Accomodation, by private citizens, of our brave soldiers.
If it saves one child. /TIC
October 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Hmm, according to Wikipedia’s Engblom v. Carey, even the Third Amendment applies to the individual states, not just the federal government.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
People say the Third Amendment is a moot amendment. That quartering soldiers will never happen. But let’s look at history and see if we can determine just exactly why the people of that time thought the concept was important enough to put in a “Bill of Rights”.
Back in the good old days when the Aristocracy was in charge and toilets weren’t invented the good old boys in charge of everything would put soldiers in the houses of the dissidents. Those soldiers would beat the crap out of, and do anything else to intimidate, the residents. They not only received a visit from the Gestapo/Red Coats/Hessians, they got a 24/7 live in thug who would teach them the proper attitude.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
If I could change any one amendment, it would be the 2nd, but that’s a given.
If I had *another* change, I would make the 3rd more along the lines of “It’s your shit. Uncle Sam cannot have it without your permission”.
October 6th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
As silly as the group’s mission sounds today, don’t we all wish we had been as active regarding the second amendment down through the ages of our nation?
October 6th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I just wanted to point out that the Onion is a humor/parody publication, not a real news source.
Still, the entire Bill of Rights should be respected.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Back during WWII, Central Louisiana was awash in military posts and personnel. Fort Polk, Camp Livingston, Camp Beauregard, Camp Claiborne, and England AFB had almost a million troopers assigned. Many of the townfolk with a spare bedroom rented them to families/couples. My grandmother had a spare room and rented it to various couples for the duration of the war. They maintained contact and shared letters until my grandmothers death in the early 1990’s.