From my experience America changed after 9/11. Our Constitution was basically tossed by the Patriot Act and military commissions act.
It took one administration away from its passing to completely corrupt the government. Prior to those bills America cherished it's rights. Since then it's been a slow deterioration of libertarian ideas. Add in 10% of our population isn't here legally and combine it with the amount of people we do let in.
We've lost our identity. I feel as though we are teetering on the edge and we can go one way or the other.
America is an idea. Our young people are rejecting liberty and American values. They have no idea what free speech means or why gun rights exist. Right to privacy. Or burden of proof.
How come its not a Federal crime to write an unconstitutional law? Everyone who considers voting for it is conspiring to impinge on my civil liberties and has actually violated me ... seems like a type of assult ... after they voted for it.
Can we get a law that punishes illegal law makers?
Obviously not, as long as lawmakers can write the laws and no be bound by their own, or other laws.
Many laws are intentionally written to be able to be interpreted the way a lawyer wants it to be. As an example I refer you to the [1980s, may have changed] New York State Penal Code definition of entrapment. It states that that entrapment is coercing, tricking, etc. someone into committing a crime, and then closes with a paragraph that says (paraphrasing) "unless the person was free to perform this action on his own", which essentially invalidates the entire statute, or reinforces it, depending on how you interpret it.
Good point. Every law should have to pass constitutional muster. Every legislator who submits a law should be personally liable if it is found to be unconstitutional. A judge whose ruling is found to be unconstitutional by a higher court should be personally liable. A repeat offender legislator should be bared from submitting our sponsoring bills. A judge should be removed after so many offenses.
There's a simple solution to bad lawyers; make it like (what I read) Britain did, so lawyers only get paid if they win the case, and can be sued by those they represent if they lose.
Choose to ignore, a lot of them openly tell people not to follow the laws they write themselves so why would they care about laws someone else wrote?
sigh... my guru told me there'd be lifetimes like this. :-|
Yeah if they're public servants, I'm thinking THEY be obeying OUR laws and constitution.
Bribed, blackmailed and coerced to ignore it.
Ignore it; They who have the gold, make the rules
From my experience America changed after 9/11. Our Constitution was basically tossed by the Patriot Act and military commissions act.
It took one administration away from its passing to completely corrupt the government. Prior to those bills America cherished it's rights. Since then it's been a slow deterioration of libertarian ideas. Add in 10% of our population isn't here legally and combine it with the amount of people we do let in.
We've lost our identity. I feel as though we are teetering on the edge and we can go one way or the other.
America is an idea. Our young people are rejecting liberty and American values. They have no idea what free speech means or why gun rights exist. Right to privacy. Or burden of proof.
"They have no idea what free speech means or why gun rights exist. Right to privacy. Or burden of proof.
Which goes a long way toward explaining why those in control of schoolbooks and curricula are meticulously working at erasing our nation's history.
How come its not a Federal crime to write an unconstitutional law? Everyone who considers voting for it is conspiring to impinge on my civil liberties and has actually violated me ... seems like a type of assult ... after they voted for it.
Can we get a law that punishes illegal law makers?
Obviously not, as long as lawmakers can write the laws and no be bound by their own, or other laws.
Many laws are intentionally written to be able to be interpreted the way a lawyer wants it to be. As an example I refer you to the [1980s, may have changed] New York State Penal Code definition of entrapment. It states that that entrapment is coercing, tricking, etc. someone into committing a crime, and then closes with a paragraph that says (paraphrasing) "unless the person was free to perform this action on his own", which essentially invalidates the entire statute, or reinforces it, depending on how you interpret it.
Good point. Every law should have to pass constitutional muster. Every legislator who submits a law should be personally liable if it is found to be unconstitutional. A judge whose ruling is found to be unconstitutional by a higher court should be personally liable. A repeat offender legislator should be bared from submitting our sponsoring bills. A judge should be removed after so many offenses.
"Do you have trouble making up your mind?"
"well yes and no."
Politicians absolutely understand the constitution: they hire people to tell them whether their legislation is constitutional.
They are nearly all lawyers, too.
Do they knowingly write unconstitutional laws? Absolutely. Again, they hire people to tell them.
Lawyer: the larval form of a politician.
There's a simple solution to bad lawyers; make it like (what I read) Britain did, so lawyers only get paid if they win the case, and can be sued by those they represent if they lose.
They are paid to destroy it
Worse, they know it and hate the control it places 9n their power