Reply #89: Untrue

[Mairead]

Note that the protection of our enumerated rights is empty. There is no penalty for infringement. The very most that can happen is that SCOTUS will strike down an infringing law. But there's no requirement that they do so.

Which is why an innocent person can have her property confiscated and sold by the cops, violating the Fourth Amendment; and we can be arrested for exercising our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly and speech, and confined to pens; and why even actual innocence of a crime isn't enough to save one from execution; and why our right to own and carry weapons for self-defence is grossly restricted even tho the police have no legal obligation to protect us; and....