America’s forgotten freedoms »
Posted By jovial 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsA survey by the First Amendment Center in the US has reached the shocking conclusion that most American citizens don’t know the five basic freedoms enshrined in the constitution.
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Grew up In Brooklyn. Joined the Navy in 1976 stayed in 10 years. Aircraft Electronics tech. Worked for Major Govt. contractor then settled in California ...
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memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
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The article notes 54% of people support no politics on the pulpit with tax exemption. It should be 100%, if the first amendment means anything at all.
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I think it's frightening that so many think church and politics comingling is OK. That's a clear sign that we are headed for theocracy--but not necessarily the one its supporters would advocate.
If we don't embrace a secular society soon, theocrats are going to dismantle our constitution.-
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wtagg1 year, 1 month ago
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What is interesting is that we worry about other countries being run by a theocracy, but don't have the same worries when it is our own. Another hypocrisy.
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It is also another example of those that claim to be conservative being nowhere near the meaning of the word. -
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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If we don't embrace a secular society soon, theocrats are going to dismantle our constitution.>>>
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They're dismantling equal rights through propaganda right now, with the millions spent on 'gay marriage' bills. Dobson's 'focus on the family' spent $400,000 to help pass CA's proposition 8. -
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Beau78901 year, 1 month ago
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Do schools teach much about the Constitution in high school anymore? If not, they should spend a lot more time on it.
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Perhaps better education about our nation's most fundamental laws would encourage people to protect the Constitution as much as (and with luck, more than) they do our flag, which is only a symbol of the nation the Constitution created.
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Jaydee401 year, 1 month ago
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A document means nothing to ensuring ones rights or freedoms, Americans need to realize that. It's the willingness to sacrifice all to practice those freedoms that is what protects them and THAT is what the American people have lost!!
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Bravo. We also have a political class that is thoroughly corrupt - in BOTH parties. Until we summon up the courage to jail many of them, our democracy will continue to disappear.
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Post-partisan harmony vs. the rule of law
A Washington Post article today on the need to restore confidence in the Justice Department quotes former high-level Clinton DOJ official Robert Litt urging the new Obama administration to avoid any investigations or prosecutions of Bush lawbreaking:...
...But that's not what Litt is arguing here. Instead, his belief is that Bush officials should be protected from DOJ proceedings even if they committed crimes. And his reason for that is as petty and vapid as it is corrupt: namely, it is more important to have post-partisan harmony in our political class than it is to hold Presidents and other high officials accountable when they break the law.
How is this anything other than a full-scale exemption issued to political leaders to break our laws? ...
...This brazen defense of lawlessness articulated by Litt is now as close to a unanimous, bipartisan consensus across the political establishment as it gets. This is what has been advocated by everyone from David Broder to top Obama adviser Cass Sunstein. There are few things more difficult than finding someone of prominence in the establishment that disagrees with this view. Our political class has decided that high political officials -- particularly the President and those closest to him -- are literally exempt from the rule of law. ...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/13/...
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canadianrancher571 year, 1 month ago
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I guess I'm just a dumb Canadian I missed the right to petition and thought that the right to bear arms had to be one. This is likely way off topic but back in the Late 80's in China I saw people assemble, speak, petition, and try to be heard but we all know what happened. I don't know if they had been bearing arms if the outcome would have been different but their concerns might of gotten a bit more attentionat the time. It seems that word time is an important one since today we are seeing changes in China.
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The rights that I consider equally important are the right to be treated fairly and equally as all others before the courts of the land, nothing is more dangerous than double standards. -
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Ratskii1 year, 1 month ago
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I'd say there are six parts to the first amendment. Religion is protected in two ways -- the government may not make laws to restrict the practice of religion and the government may not make laws favoring a particular religion.
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I try to read the constitution and amendments every couple of years. This year I read a book on the history of the U.S. Constitution and its amendments too. But it can still be hard to remember every detail when asked. For example, without looking, how many of you can remember all four parts of Article IV of the U.S. Constitution? How about all four parts of Amendment V? -
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HateKoolAid1 year, 1 month ago
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I'll admit I was aware of four of them but that part about petitioning the government over grievances got me. Can somebody explain EXACTLY what that means. If it means I can sue the government, I think we lost that right a long time ago.
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truthiness1 year, 1 month ago
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it means you can sue
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it means you can file a petition with many names
it means you can write a letter to your reps or an open letter to the editor
it means you can stand outside the white house and holler off a list of grievances until you are hoarse.
it means you can make an appointment to see you elected official and complain.
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