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I suggested you read the document. That hardly qualifies as a lecture. If you prefer an empire to the constitutional republic established by the US Constitution, that's your choice.

Insisting that our government obey the supreme law of the land isn't arguing formalities and semantics. It is obeying the duty of citizenship in the interest of the survival of our form of government. That is a duty that politicians desperately want us to shirk.

Past wrongs by government do not establish an unbreakable precedent. Failure to correct those wrongs will result in the end of the USA. I don't intend to help the traitors in government accomplish that end.

It might be time for you to turn off the TV. It's having a very bad effect on your thinking.

We have become the reluctant inheritors of the status of an empire, not through conquest, but necessity. It's just that you don't realize it. The rights, liberties, and freedoms law abiding, legal US citizens enjoy are not threatened by the scrutiny or comdemnation of suspect and anti-American behavior, activities, and associations of persons either embracing or outright supporting terrorist aims and ideology. Furthermore, Hackworth's and my objection to this is the diatribe and immediate defense by individuals and groups that couch violent, anti-American, reactionary screed, especially in a time of war, in terms of protected speech that is more often than not paid for by the taxpayer at state supported institutions of "higher learning" protected and made possible by the sacrifices of the very people these ungrateful sons of bitches mock, ridicule, smear, and denounce. Free speech ain't free when somebody else has to foot the bill. As for TV viewing, I wholeheartedly support it, as I do the patronage of other forms of advanced technology modern civilization has devised. Like the computer and the internet. Engage in pedagogical pedantry and bookish snobbery, and let the real men do the real work of maintaining public safety, guaranteeing individual freedom, and winning wars, boy.