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To: alien2
"Do you really think that the government is obeying the Constitution?"

No, I do not. That's my whole point. Modern government has shredded the Constitution. What they haven't reinterpreted, they've written off as obsolete for modern times. That was then, this is now. They try to solve every problem by creating more law or more government agency, or granting itself powers out of thin air, and or restricting individual rights regardless of constitutional prohibitions. The first amendment vs copyright is just one example of bad law and bad precedent piled one on top of the other until the original meanings and intent of the underlying copyright clause and the first amendment guarantee are completely obliterated. Modern day legal theory is replacing centuries old bedrock constitutional principle. It's now whoever has the most power, money, influence or legal smarts to create, spin and push modern legal theory wins out.

The individual rights to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the second amendment are all but gone. The fourth destroyed by black garbed, hooded storm troopers and IRS thugs. And the fifth, sixth, etc., follow suit right down to the complete elimination of the ninth and tenth. And all without constitutional amendment. There has not been legal repeal of these rights, they've just been twisted away through legal theory and misinterpretation, and then buried under piles of bad legal precedent.

No one wants to hear that the copyright laws enacted over the last 40 years or so are in complete violation of our constitutionally guaranteed individual rights. What were free and constitutionally guaranteed rights from the 1790s until just a few years ago is suddenly declared illegal by modern legal theorists. The cases based on new law have already been argued and the precedents set. The Constitutional guarantees have been lost and buried. No need for amendment, just erode them away. Powerful commercial conglomerates have paid for, lobbied for, and have been granted monopoly over individual rights, and this cannot be undone until and unless we get a Supreme Court that will put the brakes on, or, even better yet, jerk the rug out. And it's going to take a lot of work by a lot of people before this can happen. Gotta do it by getting the right people elected.

116 posted on 12/04/2001 2:07:27 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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