Appreciate your reasoned reply.
A candidate’s ethical conduct in office correlates to fearing the consequences of betraying citizen trust.
Protest by citizenry makes politicians uneasy, since it exposes their misdeeds and leads to shameful ouster from office.
Electing the right candidate is key, no doubt. And Cruz is the one I currently trust most.
However, even Cruz needs respectful amount of fear for betraying those who he represents in office.
NDAA of 2012 permits the US gov’t to arbitrarily deny US citizenry the ability to gather to protest in opposition of those who govern us. That is a Huge Big deal.
We now have just lost the right to gather in protest outside of the US Supreme Court.
Muzzling, surveiling and control of citizenry is nearly completely in place.
If we lose most of our bill of rights ammendment freedom’s (1st & 4th), be assured we’ll lose the 2nd soon.
The second is the only means of enforcing the others.