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Vatican Assassins“It seems to me that the privileges and immunities enumerated in these[ten] amendments belong to every citizen of the United States. Theywere universally so regarded prior to the adoption of the FourteenthAmendment. . . .I take it no one doubts that the great men who laid thefoundations of our government regarded the preservation of theprivileges and immunities specified in the first ten Amendments as vitalto the personal security of American citizens . . .But, if I do not wholly misapprehend the scope and legal effect of thepresent decision, the Constitution of the United States does not stand inthe way of any state striking down guaranties of life and liberty thatEnglish-speaking people have for centuries regarded as vital to personalsecurity, and which the men of the revolutionary period universallyclaimed as the birthright of freemen.” {11} [Emphasis added]This same question was again before the Court in 1908. In Twining v. NewJersey, 211 US 97, 105, 106 (1908), the majority opinion sealed forever the holdingof the Slaughterhouse Cases. Proceeding as if it were England’s King’s Bench or thePope’s Sacred Rota, it arrogantly declared:“This view is based upon the contention which must now be examined,that the safeguards of personal rights which are enumerated in the firsteight articles of amendment to the Federal Constitution, sometimescalled the Federal Bill of Rights though they were by thoseAmendments originally secured only against national action, are amongthe privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, which thisclause of the 14 th Amendment protects against state action. This viewhas been, at different times, expressed by justices of this court . . . (Mr.Justice Field . . . and Mr. Justice Harlan . . . ), and was undoubtedly thatentertained by some of those who framed the Amendment.[The Court then gives its Jesuitical, absolutist, tyrannical decree, opening the doorfor the Empire’s future fascist Roman Catholic, military dictatorship.]It is, however, not profitable to examine the weighty arguments in itsfavor, for the question is no longer open in the court. The right of trialby jury in civil cases, guaranteed by the 7 th Amendment . . . and theright to bear arms, guaranteed by the 2 nd Amendment, have beendistinctly held not to be privileges and immunities of citizens of theUnited States, guaranteed by the 14 th Amendment . . . the same decisionwas made in respect of the guaranty against prosecution, except byindictment of a grand jury, contained in the 5 th Amendment . . . and inThe Jesuits – 1868 - 1872