The Pigs Are In Charge

The Seven Commandments – Animal Farm’s Original Constitution:

1 - Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy.
2 - Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3 - No animal shall wear clothes.
4 - No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5 - No animal shall drink alcohol.
6 - No animal shall kill any other animal.
7 - All animals are equal.



The Seven Commandments – After Pigs revisions:

1 - "Four legs good, two legs better!"
2 - No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
3 - No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.
4 - No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.
5 - All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Orwell was satirizing Stalinism.

I’m not sure he knew he was predicting the future of the United States Constitution.

Let me ask you a question… is this even remotely vague?

Article I – Section 2:

“The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States”

States. The House of Representatives comprises representatives of the “States.”


The United States Congress in recent years has taken the attitude that if you can’t amend the Constitution, "Hey! Let’s ignore it!!!"

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill giving the District of Columbia a representative in the U.S. House. The District of Columbia is not a State. The Constitution says membership is for representatives of States.

I read the most disgusting quote from a Senator ever yesterday. Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader said that congress is “moving to right a centuries-old wrong.”

WTF!!!???

Tell me Harry… You got a problem with amending the Constitution?



Why was the 19th Amendment passed? Couldn’t the Senate have just done that on its own?

Why was the 23rd Amendment passed? It gave the District of Columbia the right to select presidential electors. Couldn’t the Senate have just done that on its own?

Hey HARRY!!!! Why was the 26th Amendment passed? Couldn’t the Senate have done that on its own?


Yeah, this is the problem: Back in 1978, the Congress passed the exact same thing, District representation in the House. It was passed as a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!!!! And guess what? It failed to gain the support of the States and died. THEREFORE: The House is reserved for representation of the States!! NOT of the DISTRICT!!

But today… as Orwell clearly mocked in Animal Farm... the Pigs can change the constitution at will.

It is a sad state for the Republic.