Children should be brought up having studied the Constitution and bill of rights and fully understand what it says

That's not going to happen as long as we put up with government schools.

-jcr

I guess they've decided to abandon all pretense of upholding our civil rights, and have decided to dedicate themselves to inventing ever more asinine pretensions to claim that the bill of rights doesn't say what it says.

Fuck those goddamned shysters.

-jcr

Is something that tells me every time the president does another power-grab.

-jcr

Wow, you are one long-winded little boot licker, aren't you?

-jcr

The entire point of the constitution was to put limits on government, serious limits.

And apropos of that, the constitution is the entirety of the legal basis for the government's very existence. Whenever it exceeds the powers granted in the constitution, it is acting without any legal authority.

-jcr

high-school dropouts & moronic Ron Paul libertarians.

Go fuck yourself. Ron Paul warned us that the NSA was violating our privacy, and he's been proven right not just this time, but over and over.

the NSA is filled with professionals that fully understand rights and freedoms,

Oh, they understand the rights they're violating on a routine basis? That makes it all better. Sure it does.

-jcr

I am sorry officer, I do not consent to searches

I'm not apologetic about my rights. I would refuse with a statement along the lines of "I don't consent to searches, and if you were an honest, patriotic American, you wouldn't be trying to undermine the fourth amendment to the constitution."

-jcr

why the right to remain silent benefits society.

Since when do our individual rights have to be justified on the basis of whether they're useful to the collective?

-jcr

I also favor the immediate suspension of the right to drive upon arrest

Then fuck you. There's a reason why we have trials, instead of allowing the government to inflict punishments upon accusation.

-jcr

The first time some drunk driver doesn't get reported because nobody on the road can call 911, the blood will be on the bureaucrat's hands.

-jcr

If Verizon agreed to hand over the records (as it appears they did),

Sure, people are very agreeable when threatened.

-jcr

Take just a second and read about what must be done in order to use FISA data in a criminal prosecution of a US citizen.

The fourth amendment doesn't say that the government may violate our privacy as long as they don't use what they find in a criminal prosecution. It says that we are not to be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures.

-jcr

As it happens, that was Ceausescu's fatal mistake. Even a communist army indoctrinated in dictator worship from the cradle balked at shooting their own friends and neighbors.

-jcr

The whole point of this was to deflect attention from the gate rape and the porno scanners. The TSA is a government agency, and it will never voluntarily back down from any of the stupid and pointless bullshit they impose on the traveling public.

-jcr

Post 911, nobody can take over a plane with a few knives.

Post 9/11, nobody's ever going to take over a plane again, period. Someone might be able to destroy one, but the days of "just do what the bad man says" are over.

-jcr