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Time to start preparing
The Homeland Security Act is the scariest thing to come down the pike in the United States in a very, very long time. You can read about it here.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
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Nicely put.
Interesting. I regard it as a terrifying threat. My freedom of speech. Reset. My freedom from religion. Reset. My right to vote. Reset. The rights of my friends not to be slaves. Reset.
The only reset button the Constitution requires is already contained within itself.
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The current Attorney General has stated, on record, that criticizing the President should be a punishable offense.
My freedom from religion. Reset.
Read up on Tom DeLay, now the number 2 man in the House of Representatives. Not only does he not want you to be free from religion, he wants to choose your faith for you if he doesn't like your choice.
My right to vote. Reset.
If you live in Broward County, Fla, it appears to be happening already. Hundreds of thousands of ballots vanished on election night. All from heavily Democratic districts.
The rights of my friends not to be slaves. Reset.
Under the emergency legislation passed by Congress after 9/11, you can be arrested as a terrorist suspect, and held without charges, the right to an attorney, any visitors.. anything, for as long as the government feels like holding you. This is already happening.
The only reset button the Constitution requires is already contained within itself.
And when the Government ignores that Constitution? What then?
Have you read the Declaration of Independence? I mean really read it? We didn't break away from the mother country on a whim. We had a specific list of abuses that were enumerated clearly. If the colonists hadn't been armed, nothing would have happened.
Remember, this is the same Bush administration that came up with the great idea of having your postal worker reporting on you.
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Merely a reassertion that the Government governs at the pleasure of the people and not the other way around.
At that point, depending on the beliefs of the people asserting that power, the Constitution would most likely be revised.
Given the general beliefs that seem to be at odds with the current governmental bent and the general agreement with the Constitution as written, a "minor" revision vs. a complete overhaul seems more likely and would be easier to ratify.
Probably a revision that restricted the Federal government more from certain privacy and personal protection areas (civil rights, that sort of thing) and hopefully a more simplified plain language version...
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(1) You're assuming that the tenor of the government does not accurately reflect the will of the people. However, if the recent election results are at all representative, it DOES ... unfortunately with those who happen to disagree with the majority.
(2) Something written in plain language, by lawyers? A profession whose very existence depends on knowing more of the Sekrit Lore than you do? Ha. Ha ha.
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...Besides, we are a Constitutional Republic and not a straight Democracy.
The point of which is to insure the rights of those not in the voting majority.
(The whole point behind ennumerated Constitutional Rights, the Electoral College, the Senate vs. House designs, the appointment of Senators early on in lieu of direct election, the Supreme Court and Appeals Courts, etc.)
Enough of a "minority", or a grouping of such, can force the issue and protect their interests with the rest forced to either fight and kill them and risk their own skins or to accede and let them either go their own way or change the Constitution accomodate their concerns.
Admittedly, the last time this happened in large scale, the "minority" lost after a number of bloody years.
Most votes doesn't always mean right.
Bread and circusses and all that.