Let’s see…

Guantameno Bay
Secret CIA Prisons
Iraq War
NSA monitoring international phone calls
NSA monitoring domestic phone calls

What’s next? I’m almost afraid to ask. It’s time to impeach bush and take our government back.

I voted for Clinton; I voted for Gore, and I voted for Kerry! God help and protect me if I am ever forced to bear witness against myself and admit that I oppose the would-be rapists of the Constitution!

The concept that, if you have nothing to hide or nothing to be ashamed of, you should willingly give up your Constitutionally protected rights and submit to the arbitrary, unlawful interference by your government in your personal life is a dangerous, groundless proposition propagated by the enemies of fee men everywhere.

The authors of the Bill of Rights did not provide for exceptions or biased interpretation of their forcefully stated insistence that Congress shall make no law curtailing the freedom of speech (etc.) No man, no court, no legislative body should arbitrarily create exceptions.

The Constitution does NOT say that Congress shall make no law restricting our civil rights, “unless or until the Chief Executive gets an urge to aggrandize his powers”; it does not permit the dissolution of those precious rights “if our great Republic should come under attack by Muslim extremists or lovesick starlet stalkers who decide to shoot the President in order to gain the attention of the object of his demented obsessions”; nor does it provide for the abrogation of those rights if the Attorney General feels the only weapons at his disposal to combat enemy forces within include setting aside pesky, bothersome civil rights.

And most of all, the framers of that precious document (the last citadel against tyranny) did not intend that it should be the sole discretion of the Chief Executive whether or not the citizens of this nation should enjoy the protection of government by law. Threats to national security and national sovereignty are not emboldened by the fears of some that our Constitutionally protected Human Rights provide safe havens for insurgents.

To the contrary, it was with brilliant insight that men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Ben Franklin, and so many other men of courage and integrity realized that the fabric of our society is strengthened by the inviolability of those rights. To paraphrase Franklin and others: they who believe that it is worth forfeiting some of our rights in order to secure some degree of safety will lose both rights and safety.

Most telling perhaps, is that a solemn oath was prescribed whereby elected officials swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. He who would author even the tiniest infringement of our Constitutional Rights, or support such infringement by vote or judicial decision, is, in my considered opinion, guilty of high treason and perjury. The PATRIOT Act, for example, on its face is illegal and anyone who voted its enactment has forsworn a sacred oath. No amount of rhetoric or obscure reasoning and justification can paint a different face on the deliberate suspension of unalienable rights. Having witnessed history since 1941, I am utterly flabbergasted that, as a nation, such a debate is even remotely entertained by honest, reasonable, patriotic men.

Anyone that says that has absolutely NO idea what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights within it represent. Nor do they have any idea what Our Forefathers WENT THROUGH to get it that way!

Hey, ya’ll, USE your Search Engine and READ that Bill of Rights…at very LEAST!!!! Reading the whole Constitution would be even BETTER education …which is OBVIOUSLY extremely NEEDED!!!!