Ok, so history class was awhile ago, but the last time I checked, this is how the Ammendments began...
"Ammendment I: Congress shall make NO law...ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS, OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES"
What part of "no law" is ambiguous? What part of "no law" is confusing? What part of "no law" makes you think that you can go around making laws abridging this country's freedoms?
Seriously, this is what Tenant is arguing: The freedoms of the United States of America are so valuable and need to be protected so much that we are going to preempt the infadels and strip your freedoms before they have a change to do it themselves. Because the US goverment limiting your freedoms is better than having some foreign body from the Axis of Evil doing it instead. Because the Constitution and the Founding Fathers were only kidding when they said no law. Because they didn't understand the threats of the new world. But they were smart enough to devise a completely new system of government with the longest lasting constitution in the history of the world.
Because Freedom isn't free. and dammit, you're gonna like it.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so history class was awhile ago, but the last time I checked, this is how the Ammendments began... "Ammendment I: Congress shall make NO law...ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS, OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES" What part of "no law" is ambiguous? What part of "no law" is confusing? What part of "no law" makes you think that you can go around making laws abridging this country's freedoms? Seriously, this is what Tenant is arguing: The freedoms of the United States of America are so valuable and need to be protected so much that we are going to preempt the infadels and strip your freedoms before they have a change to do it themselves. Because the US goverment limiting your freedoms is better than having some foreign body from the Axis of Evil doing it instead. Because the Constitution and the Founding Fathers were only kidding when they said no law. Because they didn't understand the threats of the new world. But they were smart enough to devise a completely new system of government with the longest lasting constitution in the history of the world. Because Freedom isn't free. and dammit, you're gonna like it.