[RetiredArmyMajor]

Furthermore, mindbender, you end your post with the following comment and signature: """ This is not a question so muck of legalities as it is of macho and stupidity. 27 posted on 05/04/2007 12:41:50 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)""" 1. The sign-off commentary you have regarding you and "your CAR-15 in Vietnam" helps me interpret the person who posted the crap you published about the ease with which government should be able to stomp on the constitutional rights of American citizens. First, carrying a weapon meant never having to say you're sorry? To WHOM? And for WHAT? What exactly are you saying here? A combat soldier or Marine doesn't apologize lawfulling performing his assigned duties has no need to apologize,whether he is carrying an automatic weapon or a radio for coordinating artillery or air strikes. So you clearly imply that you in Vietnam you were engaged in illegal activities that your personal firepower prevented you from having to be held accountable? It's people with that attitude that provide the anti-military Left with ammunition (pun intended) in their never-ceasing war (pun intended) on the U.S. military. Second, you charge the property-owner with being macho and stupid for asking for proof of authority (search warrant) and videotaping the incident. Yet, you apparently don't find it macho and stupid to imply that your carrying a high-powered rifle protected you from bearing the consequences of actions that otherwise would require apologies? No constitutional right is absolute. No amendment within the Bill of Rights is 100% impenetrable -- not the first, second, third, fourth, etc. amendments. But the exceptions are few and demand great justification and due process of law. As a Vietnam veteran myself and as a professional still involved with this nation's laws and rights, I resent your attitude toward the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. combat soldier and marine, and the seriousness of this issue. Don't be so quick to sell our constitutional rights down the hellhole of "progress." With that attitude, some day there may be no FreeRepublic on which you may exercise your first amendment rights to political expression to your fellow citizens.

[MindBender26]

#1, BIOYAC

#2, My comment about “never having to say you are sorry” is a pun on the line form the movie “Love Story.” If you are so uptight you didn’t understand it, sorry ‘bout that. REMF?

#3, Your continued insistence at defending the “constitutional rights” of the idiot with the camera, when we have demonstrated that no such Constitutional right existed, and by the way, the SD on this goes back to Washington, Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion days, it only fuels the armamentum of those who see us all as fools.

#4, Paragraphs are our friends.