You're confused.
#1 "You guys" doesn't include me. I'm a gun owner since elementary school.
#2 NONE of the Amendments or any of the current three branches, nor the media, protect you against a secretive government that conceals their actions and information. That's in the constitution proper, the right to a representative government. By hiding their actions and potential criminal culpability, officials no longer represent you, and should be impeached. Every effort to hide and conceal should be get maximum scrutiny. The opposition party is failing in their duty.
#3 If you want to relax and not be concerned until you see something that interferes with your rights and legal activities, read 'VOTESCAM', just as one of a hundred books over the past 20 years detailing how fraud is perpetrated with your money and vote.
It's already too late, when the Executive, Congress and Judiciary combine to subvert the Constitution, for example, secret tribunals for citizens, or spying on your every move. We can say "Nahh, won't be used against me!".
But just having the power guarantees it will be used, at some time. Having faith it wont' is too much faith in people, rather than laws.
We can all be fat and happy as government robs us and our children of trillions in wealth and drives us into another decade or two of debt. Not a good idea.
The test is the election -- if Bush's popularity declines in 2004, we'll have a terrorist "incident" here in the US large enough to drive everyone into their homes and bunkers to vote for the status quo. This is not a desire, it's a prediction. |
