[budwiesest]

Post 213, nice.

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes.

It's not being 'respected' and the only conclusion one can come to from this is that it's all down-hill from here.

One-if-by-land, two-if-by sea, and three-if-the-SOB-is-your-neighbor.

[tpaine]

Post 213, Justice Black:

"I cannot consider the Bill of Rights to be an outworn 18th Century "strait jacket" as the Twining opinion did.
Its provisions may be thought outdated abstractions by some. And it is true that they were designed to meet ancient evils.
But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century wherever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes."

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It's not being 'respected' and the only conclusion one can come to from this is that it's all down-hill from here.
-Bud-

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Exactly, -- and in particular when we find so many socalled 'conservatives' who can find specious reasons to object to Blacks stirring words..

It's damn near unbelievable to me.