Reply #15: And none of them are police or military, that's the problem.

[TexasObserver]

The story that most pseudo patriots like to tell omits the very important fact that our founding fathers did not give us the Bill of Rights after laboring over the Constitution in Philly the summer of 1787. It took the rabble of one's state's local DUers to demand those rights as a condition of a unanimous passage of the Constitution, which was required if the Articles of Confederation were to be replaced.

In short, we've had to fight for these rights against the opponents of individual freedoms since day one, and we will have to continue doing so, every year, forever.