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Saturday, March 04, 2006
Have They Even Read It?
I'm becoming more and more convinced that CongressCritters never actually read The Document they swore to protect and defend. They keep stomping on it every chance they get.
Case in point:
Some civil liberties have been lost, a bit at a time. Most recently, it was due to McCain-Feingold. Now they want to restrict groups from informing citizens about legislation moving through Congrss? What are y'all afraid of, anyway?
Yeah, well, boys and girls, let's contact our Senators and Representatives while it's still legal and tell them that if they keep ignoring The Constitution, they're in for problems. Getting voted out of office is one possibility... push some far enough, and this quote will be brought to the public's notice once again:
Case in point:
The U.S. Senate is moving to curtail the influence of non-profit interest groups that routinely contact citizens and urge them to petition their congressmen or senators on issues of concern.
The so-called Lieberman-Levin Amendment would impose "unconstitutional and unfair" restraints on non-profit grassroots lobbying activity, the Family Research Council warned...
...According to Perkins, the Lieberman-Levin amendment violates the constitutionally protected right of citizens to petition government, stifles debate, and shuts out the voice of average citizens.
Some civil liberties have been lost, a bit at a time. Most recently, it was due to McCain-Feingold. Now they want to restrict groups from informing citizens about legislation moving through Congrss? What are y'all afraid of, anyway?
Yeah, well, boys and girls, let's contact our Senators and Representatives while it's still legal and tell them that if they keep ignoring The Constitution, they're in for problems. Getting voted out of office is one possibility... push some far enough, and this quote will be brought to the public's notice once again:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government (emphasis mine-B), laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.We did it once before... who's to say we won't do it again? There are already people contemplating it.
