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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (7188)12/17/2005 12:33:43 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (2) of 541344
 
Like I said, if people want to change the Constitution, then amend it to fit the modern age. Until then, people who swear to uphold and defend it can't claim they are "unduly" bound by its provisions.

As for what information is prized, I prize mine very highly. I am a citizen with rights. I prize its privacy and integrity as deeply as I prize anything else about being American.

My fundamental rights are not negotiable by people who have no right to contravene them absent a judicial warrant. The "balance" is up to them to change via a constitutional process.

It simply isn't the prerogative of the executive to act on their own. Just like it isn't their prerogative to strip citizens of their constitutional rights based on an arbitrary executive decree.

I suspect I could find some constitutional protections that you WOULDN'T want to have stripped for national security reasons. But once you let the executive start rewriting the rules on their own, your protections are gone. Poof.
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