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You mean our Liberals friends just discovered that the Constitution was gone?

Over at Delawareliberal they've declared it game, set, and match on the Constitution with the release of the Yoo memo on torture (excuse me, I mean "the not-polite questioning of human garbage that deserves to die"). . . .

Kind of makes me wonder how they missed. . . .

The institution of Soviet-style internal passports with the Real ID Act.

The American Empire's massive empire of hundreds of military bases spanning the planet.

Police in Boston and Washington DC conducting warrantless searches to confiscate legally owned property from citizens who are not even suspected of any crime.

The TSA Gestapo forcing a woman to remove her nipple rings with a pair of pliers for their vicarious entertainment, followed by a bureaucratic pronouncement that they had followed policy in doing so.

The continuing 4th Amendment violations in the so-called War on Drugs that have been occurring for more than thirty years.

A mother arrested because she has, in the opinion of a police officer, stepped too far away from the car in which her daughter sits (in her full view) to drop off a donation to a Salvation Army kettle.

The government forcing adults engaging in transporting themselves in motorcycles to wear helmets--even though there is no data to support this Statist intervention as making anybody safer.

The reason you can have such a phenomena as Dubya--even during a so-called wartime--is that the Constitution and your civil liberties have been under attack for decades at all levels: Local, State, and Federal.

But what works best in a purely political sense in 2008 is to pretend that it's all about George W. Bush and the nasty old GOP. For God's sake: Hillary Clinton wants to fine people who choose not to purchase health insurance, and Barack Obama wants to have the IRS fill out your tax forms for you, while dramatically expanding what the Federal government can prosecute as hate crimes without regard to local jurisdictions.

Barack Obama just talked about ignoring international law to hit Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, but Bill Clinton actually did it with that aspirin factory in the Sudan.

Don't give me this line that only the GOP makes war on the Constitution. The Democrats merely do it for a good cause, so it's OK, right?

The only candidates who are talking seriously about the Constitution (after the Ron Paul phenomenon flared out) are Libertarians like George Phillies, Christine Smith, and Mary Ruwart.

They won't get elected, but as I have already noted: they have the potential to garner enough votes this year to decide the election and begin to fracture the Statist, anti-Constitutional Demopublican monopoly on national politics.

Wonder if our Liberal and Progressive brethren and cistern will notice that?

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