Kevin's Statement

ryanr writes "Kevin's statement that he gave today has been posted here. It's a nice summary of the injustices done to him." There's little more I can say.

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Government Guarantees our Rights?

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Something this brings up in my mind is how skewed our perceptions of Constitutional Rights have become in the US. The Bill of Rights was not written to outline rights that the federal and state governments would grant to all of us Citizens (after all, what they can grant, they can revoke). Rather, it was to outline a set of basic human rights that are inherent to us by virtue of being homo sapiens walking on the planet, and to affirm that these rights therefore pre-exist any government. OK, so the people who wrote those documents did not always live up to the standards they wrote down. That doesn't make the document, the statement of ideals and philosophy less valuable.

Kevin is 100% on target: if they can do it to him, they can do it to anyone. If you really stop and honestly consider the question, what is the difference between us and Kevin? Between us and the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX? Between us and the Weavers in Ruby Ridge, ID? At the risk of sounding alarmist, I'd say the difference is that they haven't come for you and me yet. Which is worth being alarmed about.

The sad fact is that we live in a de facto police state. When state and federal officials can openly and willingly flaunt the law, deny rights that they are sworn, duty-, & honor-bound to defend, from the very citizens they are employed by, in truth we do not have those rights. The lessons of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Kevin Mitnick seem clear: if you do not quietly submit, you will be killed or locked up as an example.

Sure, for the majority the gilding on the bars is nice enough to distract us from the fact that they are there. But they are there, nonetheless.

Remind me again, why should I not be concerned that they want to take all of our guns away?