Forum: Bryce


Subject: O.T. Orwellian World Already At Our Doorsteps

Quest opened this issue on Jul 01, 2008 ยท 66 posts


dvlenk6 posted Thu, 03 July 2008 at 3:44 AM

What part "...shall not be violated..." in the 4th amendment is difficult to understand?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amendmentiv

No warrants needed, so forget the last half of the amendment; that's already been tossed into the growing heap of discarded individual rights.

What constitutes 'unreasonable search and seizure"?
Right now, nothing does, and that's the problem. There doesn't need to be any suspicion whatsoever. So, there goes the rest of the amendment.

Soon, we will be back to two 'inalienable' rights: The right to pay taxes, and the right to die.
Oh wait, suicide is a crime...forgot about that.
So, you'll have the indisputable right to pay taxes. Wonderful. No politician will ever threaten that right, you can be sure about that.

The most serious danger, however, lies in the ability of one man (the president) to suspend the constitution and declare martial law at a whim, under the 2 Patriot Acts. Basically declare himself 'Dictator of America', as commander in chief of the armed forces.
Think, New Orleans after Katrina, at the national level.
A Michigan state senator recently moved for state wide martial law on the floor of the state senate as a means to 'put an end to civil protests' against state government corruption. The motion was denied; but it is clearly being mulled over over by various scumbag crooks,...I mean politicians.

Friends don't let friends use booleans.