Don’t let a cop in my home? I live with a former law enforcemnent officer. He’s my husband. My son was a Marine who died in Irag. I’d glady “billet” him if he was still on this earth.
In a republic, the government is US. It is what we make it. If you don’t like the status quo, and most of us don’t, it is our responsibility to change it.
Sorry to hear this. I thank him for his service and wish you well.
I just hope all of us get back to the principles our Republic was founded on.
You’re conflating your family and their jobs. Their jobs are NOT to be trusted. If you let a cop in your home all warrant rules evaporate, anything they see can and will be used against you. Amendment 3 clearly says you shouldn’t let soldiers (not your son, the rest of them) in your home.
Sorry but you are 100% wrong. In a republic the government is something we constructed and HOPE to control. But again that control is based on an adversarial relationship. And step 1 to changing the government is realizing that it needs to be changed, which means admitting it is not on your side.
Don’t take my word for it, ask the experts:
[G]overnment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”
— Thomas Paine
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government. “
— Thomas Paine
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Never, ever, under any circumstances trust the government. And never confuse it with the people.