Since when is taking away constitutional rights...constitutional!? Elections aren’t the mere means of remove the constitution. Changes to it require the process endowed.
Never mind the laws for a minute...where would this country be if it ignored it’s own common sense!? Would our founder have even broken off if they just accepted limited control over their destiny and what sort of government could exist if free-speech was wholly eliminated!?
If we revere the Constitution, then we should use it to change things in our government that we don’t like. If you feel that a law or government decision is depriving you of a Constitutional right, then you take it to court - all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The reason that we have the Constitution structured the way it is is because our Founders didn’t want to have to resort to a war or an insurrection every time there were grievances against the government. They created the Constitution to deal with those grievances. They didn’t include a “Civil Unrest” clause - but they did include insurrection against your elected government as an offense called “treason.”
If you can prove that you have had a Constitutional right stripped from you - you can find lawyers all over the Yellow Pages. There are probably a few here that will take your case. Our founders gave you the tools to control your destiny. What have you done to use those tools - have you ever run for an elected office? Did you go to Washington on 9/12? (I didn’t see any water cannon or other weapons being fired at the crowds - did you?) Were the marchers rounded up and thrown into “Free Speech Areas” like we saw at the National Conventions in 2004? No, people went and had their say.
And now it’s time for them to put that say into electoral action. Are you working to get your candidate elected in next year’s Congressional election? Have you volunteered yet?
“Changes to it [I assume you mean the Constitution] require the process endowed.” And what exactly IS the process that the Constitution gives its citizens to change it? Elections, Constitutional Conventions, and the passage of amendments. They are work, but they are better than government changed by the pointing of guns.
Maybe that’s the reason the Founders, in their wisdom, developed such a carefully balanced system. They wanted only those ideas that people were willing to work for to become the law of the land. Or are you saying that civil war is a better way? Then why didn’t the Founders sanction civil war in the Constitution?
Because they thought Americans could solve their problems without violence. Do you agree with them or not?