Liberty? You can kiss it goodbye.

First, the death of privacy. And without privacy, there can be no liberty:
‘Walls Closing In Dept.’ by Francis Porretto
and:
‘Is our Constitution just a worthless piece of paper?
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
‘…Last week, we learned how deep the disrespect for the Constitution runs in the government and how tortured is the logic that underlies it. In a little-noted speech at Washington and Lee Law School, Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of both the CIA and the NSA, told us. In a remarkable public confession, he revealed that somehow he received from some source he did not name the authority to reinterpret the Fourth Amendment’s protection of privacy so as to obliterate it. He argued that the line between privacy and unbridled government surveillance is a flexible and movable one, and that he — as the head of the NSA — could move it.

This is an astounding audacity by a former high-ranking government official who swore numerous times to uphold the Constitution. He has claimed powers for himself that are nowhere in the Constitution or federal statues, powers that no president or Congress has claimed, powers that no Supreme Court decision has articulated, powers that are antithetical to the plain meaning and supremacy of the Constitution, powers that any non-secret judge anywhere would deny him.

If the terms and meaning of the Constitution could be changed by the secret whims of those in the executive branch into whose hands they have been reposed for safekeeping, of what value are they? No value. In such a world, our Constitution has become a worthless piece of paper.’

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14 Responses to Liberty? You can kiss it goodbye.

  1. Ronbo says:

    Those on high who have destroyed the rule of law BEWARE :!: :shock:

    There is nothing now to protect you from The Firing Squad, or the Lynch Mob :!: :twisted:

  2. Wombat says:

    The more I learn, the more I realise the Constitution was little more than a scrap of paper that no administration since its creation has paid much notice to.

    It’s main importance is that it gives us feckless plebs something to wildly point at and pretend that anyone in power gives a shit.

    Thanks to the Constitution, Americans can endlessly go on suffering abuses while pretending that one day a literate POTUS will stumble across the document they swore to uphold, actually read it, and then slavishly, tearfully, set about shredding all the infringements against the rights of his people.

    We all need to Wake-The-Fuck-Up.

    The Constitution is of less use to average man on the street than the toilet paper he uses to wipe his ass. Or, how did Spooner put it?

    “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”

    The sad thing is that this guy lived and died before we even got to world war one. We all like to pretend that grievous affronts to the bill of rights or federal limitations are a modern phenomenon but they’re not. Folks simply like to imagine that’s the case, because it helps them to believe that mythical, god-fearing constitutional government is the natural state of the western man, and that with a little bit of effort it will simple kick back into gear and we won’t have to fuck around with bloodshed for another few hundred years.

    IMO, not bloody likely. :|

  3. Robertv says:

    There can never be freedom in a direct tax system. Direct taxes gives the government the right to know EVERYTHING about you. You are less than a slave.

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