It should be the case that if you are persecuted for exercising your rights everyone in the community would stand by you. Fact is we have Freepers and Tea Party activists willing to abandon the 2nd amendment because they personally don't own guns.
>Too many people don’t realize the value of the Constitution and they’ve allowed and encouraged politicians to erode it.
Indeed.
I’ve written about the Constitution [& society] a bit:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATyjMtQJe7iWZHY2OTh0bV8yNWM3YjM1Y2M5&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dv698tm_22dr6x3nfb
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dv698tm_28c83cqsch
I even posted a Constitutional solution to our immigration problem here on FR which was taken down, either because it was “too politically incorrect” or because of the meta-humor of the title (which is more a comment on how people would react to that solution):
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATyjMtQJe7iWZHY2OTh0bV8yN2htZnBzOWQy&hl=en