“The biggest lesson to be learned from this...”
We know about the immortality of government programs. Once the government handles power like this it becomes hungry for any pretense to do it again. This is the reason why the constitution enumerated the boundaries of government. Our constitution was never written to ‘grant’ rights to citizens. The constitution was specifically written to restrict what the government was allowed to do. And it was written to offer a remedy should that government violate that social contract.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
~ Declaration of Independence ~
Yes, but sadly the government has chosen to ignore this and most people, thanks to public education, are unaware of it.
Bears repeating until we American citizens get the point…
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
~ Declaration of Independence ~