Neocon "Scholars" Call for Dismembering Bill of Rights
Some articles one reads hit a chord that deserves another hearing.
Here is one we just had to reprint. Does not the term "neoliberal"
strike an audible note as far off the scale as Neocon, although "Neocon"
has the pretext of con as in con-artist.
http://kurtnimmo.com/"p=893
Tuesday June 12th 2007, 1:31 pm"
Imagine my surprise. A "guest scholar at the center-left Brookings
Institution," Benjamin Wittes, wants to gut the Second Amendment. Wittes
told CNSNews "that rather than try to limit gun ownership through
regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of
gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment
altogether."
Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, however, did not
limit his comments to the Second Amendment, suggesting instead that much
of the Bill of Rights has "no contemporary relevance." As an example,
Barnett cited the Fourth Amendment. "Sure it was fine that persons
should be secure in their papers and effects back in the old days when
there wasn"t a danger of terrorism and mass murder." According to the
professor, the Fourth Amendment is "archaic [and] we don"t need it
anymore."
Of course, this sort of authoritarian nonsense should be expected, as
we have allowed the government to be hijacked by a gaggle of neocons and
their neoliberal kissing cousins who favor the sort of government
operating in China to a constitutionally limited republic of the sort we
had until 1791 when the Federalist Alexander Hamilton set-up the first
central bank in America modeled after the Bank of England. In essence,
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have languished ever since and
the neocons are now simply doing away with all pretense, not that most
Americans will notice"so long as they remain "free" to shop, consume,
and watch American Idol.
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