The Constitution? Well, it's
like a bull in a china shop. You break it, you pay for it ;)
You want to know the secrets of the
American
Constitution? Listen
closer...
Never forget that
Government Is The Servant
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Articles/Op-Ed on
The Constitution
The great thing about the
Constitution is that the Founders made
certain
it could be changed to reflect the needs of future generations and
changes
in the culture, through the process of Amendment. If you have
some
new rules for the USA, such as making a different Bill Of Rights for
people
who have taken self defense lessons, then you have the ability to do so
through
the legislative process. Until then, the U.S. Bill Of Rights
applies
to EVERYBODY.
Listen to a Democracy Now interview with Naomi
Wolf about her new book
"The End of
America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"
In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our
free America is under assault. She warns us — with the
straight-to-fellow-citizens
urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets — that we have
little
time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
“If we do not hang
together, we shall surely hang separately.”
-- Thomas Paine
read his
"Common Sense" pamphlet
"You call yourself a patriot, and loyal Subject
to the Crown??", asks the British Officer
on horseback in a crowd of Colonists
"I do not call myself subject to much at all...", says the American
Colonist amidst barely stiffled laughter
-- from the movie
"Last
of the Mohicans"
"Democracy is a messy and inefficient
way for people
to govern themselves,
but it's the best way there's ever been.
Let's not throw it all away, as so many peoples have in the past,
giving
up their liberties, freedoms and privacy to those who would take power
using
the guise of providing security. Too many people have died in the
names
of the The Soviet, The Nazi, and The Cultural Revolution only for the
'winners'
to find themselves not freed from tyranny,
but surrounded by it."
~ Kurt Ericson - 09/17/07
"...when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy,
but,
after
all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they
attacked
the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but still, he was not a
Socialist,
and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so
on,
and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then
they
attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something - but
then
it was too late."
~ from the book "They
Thought They Were Free" 1955 by Milton Mayer
interviews with ordinary
German
citizens about the rise of Nazism in Germany
"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question
mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
~ Bertrand Russell
"We must choose
between freedom and fear — we cannot have both.
If
the citizens of the United States persist in being afraid, the real
rulers of this country will be the fanatics fired with a zeal to save
grown men from objectionable ideas by putting them under the care of
official nursemaids."
~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr., The Blessings of Liberty [1956]
-- "America will never be destroyed from
outside. If we falter
and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free."
~ Gothe
Listen to my reading of an excerpt from a Libertarian review of Glenn
Greenwald's
"How
Should A
Patriot Act?"
