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Jackpine Radical

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1. The whole issue of the Bill of Rights needs to be revisited--

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 01:34 PM

Aug 2013

but I wouldn't want to have it happen in the present political environment, where, from the Supreme Court to the White House, there are no friends of civil liberty to stand up for its provisions.

The 1st has been twisted beyond recognition by a succession of rulings from Kennedy/Valeo to Citizens United so that it has become a plaything and privilege of the wealthy.

The 4th has been virtually destroyed by a series of events beginning with no-knock drug laws to the NSA's new Vatican in the Desert.

Things will not be made better if we give them an excuse to throw the whole mess out (except for the Second, of course) in one overarching shot.

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