Sponsor |  Laukev7 | Oct 25, 2006 1:58pm | They aren't being very subtle anymore, are they.
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7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner, a Reagan appointee, argues in "Not a Suicide Pact: the Constitution in a Time of National Emergency" (Oxford 2006) that in a terrorism-induced choice between individual freedoms and collective security, the Constitution was never intended to side with the first at the expense of the second. Maybe it's Judge Posner's bitter reaction to what he perceives as judicial overreaching in constitutional decisions. Or maybe it's his professed disdain for "civil libertarians" whom, he says "are not always careful about history." Whatever the case, Judge Posner is ready to make malleable the protections contained in the Constitution; he's ready to have bedrock individual rights and protections ebb and flow along a sliding scale depending upon the scope of the crisis. |
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Sponsor | | ntltrmllgnc | Oct 25, 2006 2:18pm | | Are our freedoms going to be color coded now? |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | Oct 25, 2006 2:21pm | | No, but according to Olbermann they're countable on one finger now. |
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Sponsor | | Thomas-Jefferson | Oct 25, 2006 2:24pm | | Which of the bill of rights is still standing? |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | Oct 25, 2006 2:41pm | Third Amendment:
"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." |
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Sponsor | | Thomas-Jefferson | Oct 26, 2006 4:24am | | 5. Ah, ok... I wouldn't mind dropping that one tho, if I could get some of my other rights back.. can I trade the third for the 2nd amendment? I'm a pretty good host, and have plenty of room for a few soldiers here... besides, I really want an anti-air machine gun mounted on the back of a humvee! |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | Oct 26, 2006 6:49am | | As Olbermann said, it should now be called the 'Bill of Right'. |
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 |  1210966 | Oct 29, 2006 12:05am | | ENOUGH! Our forefathers were wiser than we. They knew the sort of rationalizations a would-be tyrant would use, and specifically worded the Constitution as they did. If we allow it to be dismantled piecemeal, it is no one's fault but our own! Reject the rationalizations! Demand accountablity! Write your Congresscritter today! |
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Sponsor | | bgamall | May 19, 2007 11:20pm | | I think the Neocons and the PNAC members should be banned from government forever. |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | May 19, 2007 11:24pm | | Both parties should be banned and replaced with a real election campaign between the third parties. |
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