| Commando said: What I am concerned about, is every other infraction against the constitution that nobody cares about and/or is in full support of. What people need to realize is that in the United States we have the unaliable right to challenge our government via Petition and if that doesn't work, Violent Usurption. Yet no one cares and we let the government regulate our ownership/use of arms. What angers me is that nowdays the average American considers protest to be "Anti-American" and Fascism to be patriotic. |
This is probably the most on point post in the thread. What about every other part of the Constitution? Are those not important?
Republicans have made a living mockery out of the Constitution these last years. The executive branch has completely abused its power and taken away too much power from the other branches of government, we have surpressed our own people's freedoms without declaring martial law (which is unconstitutional), and we have spat in the face of the amendments protecting people from cruel and unusual punishement and giving them habeas corpus. Thank God that the Supreme Court has slapped some sense back into the nation recently.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
