Funny how all totalitarian systems are similar. You're not allowed to voice a dissenting opinion from the forced 'norm,' or you suffer violence. This is why the constitution was the most progressive document ever written.
Thank God they added the bill of rights. We almost didn't get it because people thought those rights were so obvious they didn't need to be stated. The first amendment and free speech is the most important cultural precept of a free society.
(and 2A backs up the 1st)
I disagree - the government was given very specific, limited, enumerated powers - it is crystal clear that those are the ONLY powers ceded by the people and the states to the federal government. Adding the bill of rights implies that it is the government that gives us those rights set out in the bill of rights, and that is completely contrary to a nation of free people who have given the government very limited and specific powers. Our rights come from our creator, we're born with them, they aren't given to us by our federal government or the bill of rights.
That is an issue, but the 10th explicitly tells us those aren't our only rights. Courts and Congress have time and again shown that they couldn't give a damn what our natural rights are - they'll interpret and twist the law to grow the government. They've used the commerce clause and the "good and plenty" clause to do whatever they want even WITH the bill of rights. Explicit restrictions are the only thing that have slowed them down.
I guarantee you if there wasn't a first amendment we would no longer have freedom of speech. It might have lasted until this generation, when Big Tech and SJW culture took over and changed everything, as it's done to Canada and western Europe.
Yes, but less dangerous than wearing a MAGA hat in Portland, were you are immediately executed by Antifa/Isis for you infidelity to communism.
Funny how all totalitarian systems are similar. You're not allowed to voice a dissenting opinion from the forced 'norm,' or you suffer violence. This is why the constitution was the most progressive document ever written.
The Chinese also often trained both sides in African civil wars
Fun fact: John F. Kennedy backed the coup that put the Baath party, and Saddam Hussein, in power in Iraq.
Thank God they added the bill of rights. We almost didn't get it because people thought those rights were so obvious they didn't need to be stated. The first amendment and free speech is the most important cultural precept of a free society. (and 2A backs up the 1st)
I disagree - the government was given very specific, limited, enumerated powers - it is crystal clear that those are the ONLY powers ceded by the people and the states to the federal government. Adding the bill of rights implies that it is the government that gives us those rights set out in the bill of rights, and that is completely contrary to a nation of free people who have given the government very limited and specific powers. Our rights come from our creator, we're born with them, they aren't given to us by our federal government or the bill of rights.
That is an issue, but the 10th explicitly tells us those aren't our only rights. Courts and Congress have time and again shown that they couldn't give a damn what our natural rights are - they'll interpret and twist the law to grow the government. They've used the commerce clause and the "good and plenty" clause to do whatever they want even WITH the bill of rights. Explicit restrictions are the only thing that have slowed them down.
I guarantee you if there wasn't a first amendment we would no longer have freedom of speech. It might have lasted until this generation, when Big Tech and SJW culture took over and changed everything, as it's done to Canada and western Europe.
Then you will be blamed for agitating an otherwise peaceful crowd.
"Just submit to Communism, bigot!"
California is red without the illegal vote
Can confirm.