(buss05 @ Mar. 21 2007,11:36) I'm glad we agree on this. The one thing I can't stand is the people who complain about issues but refuse to vote becuase they don't feel it makes a difference.
EVERYONE MAKE SURE YOU VOTE!
The founding fathers would roll in their graves knowing how the laws of then are being interpreted today.
There are a number of things that would make our founding fathers roll over in their graves;
1. The expanded and invasive roll of the Federal Government into states rights and individual rights
2. Sixtenth Amendment authorizing federal income tax
3. The Emancipation Proclamation (Remember they were all slave holders)
4. Passage of the Ninetenth Amendment granting women the right to vote (1920, women have had the right to vote for only 87 yrs)
5. Civil Rights acts of 1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1968 & 1991
6. The Patriot Act, abridging the rights of citizens across a broad spectrum of basic rights. (The right to privacy, the right to counsel, to a trial by a jury of their peers and the right to confront their accuser)
This country bears little resemblance to that of the founding fathers with the exception of the governmental structure (Executive, Judicical and Legislative) and the rights guaranteed to us under the constitution and the bill of rights. It is these rights and governmental form that we must protect at all costs. When you start relinquishing your rights and freedoms (right of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of speech (being perhaps the most valuable of all) and freedom of religion) you are encouraging the religious zeolots, right and left wing radicals to impose their will upon us all.
On WAG's signature line is a quote from C.S. Lewis that has struck me with its ring of truth in these turbulent times:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
