well versed
McGentrix wrote:I find it interesting that someone so well versed in constitutional law and with such liberal leanings as debra_law that she has time to post on A2K. She should be working for teh ACLU and they have plenty of work to go around.
What 'cha gonna do when they come for you, bad boy, bad boy?
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
If being "liberal" means speaking out against the deprivation of individual rights protected by the Constitution, then I am liberal. The past is the key to the future. (History repeats itself.) I don't find it interesting--I find it disturbing that average United States citizens are not versed in the Constitution at all.
If it's acceptable today to confine or quarantine political dissent into distant barb-wired cages away from public view--what will be acceptable tomorrow or the day after? How many individual rights must be watered down and washed away into nonexistence before the significance of the loss affects everyone? Is our government the servant or the master?
If we are not vigilant, future generations will be living in a police state and be no more the wiser. So long as the government agents of the Department of Homeland Security are banging on the neighbor's door and taking those dissenters away in the middle of the night--the average person will be content to wear his blinders. Oh well, they will say, the neighbor was standing in a restricted zone holding an anti-war sign . . . he should have known better.
I urge all of you to understand and defend the Constitution -- before it's too late -- before apathy prevails.