The Bill of Rights is 220 years old today

Started by peternap, December 15, 2011, 11:27:37 AM

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peternap

I like to remind people who sleep a lot, that they should move once in a while just to prove they're not dead. They could get buried by accident.

Maybe today on the birthday of the Bill of Rights, we should exercise one or more of them....just to prove they aren't dead.
These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here!

Windpower

Will today be the day that Obama guts the Bill of Rights by signing the NDAA 2012

how ironic

Somewhere they are laughing at us
Often, our ignorance is not as great as our reluctance to act on what we know.


peternap

Quote from: Windpower on December 15, 2011, 12:21:24 PM
Will today be the day that Obama guts the Bill of Rights by signing the NDAA 2012

how ironic

Somewhere they are laughing at us

Windpower, he only guts it if we let him.
The Bill of Rights is more than a piece of paper, it's the ideal we set up to govern ourselves. Just because some ...Person...in the White House signs a bill that shouldn't ave been passed anyway, doesn't mean I'll go along with it.

It's the law you say....

So is wearing a seat belt and you won't see me with one on. c*

If the Bill of Rights gets gutted, it's because we let it happen!
Sometimes we work within the system, sometimes we flip it the bird.
These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here!

Windpower


I agree with your sentiments Peter

but

I hope that blood will not be spilled before this is overturned

Often, our ignorance is not as great as our reluctance to act on what we know.

Squirl

It takes all three branches of government to gut it.  Congress and the President have passed many laws abridging the bill of rights.  The final level of protection for people is the courts, yet on occasion they have been just as spineless.