"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
From the article:
During the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky stood out a bit when he cited America’s second president.
It came during a heated exchange with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about how much government intrusiveness was needed to keep Americans safe from terrorism.
"I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans," said Paul, who has been a leading voice in his party for privacy from government intrusion. "The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights."
During the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky stood out a bit when he cited America’s second president.
It came during a heated exchange with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about how much government intrusiveness was needed to keep Americans safe from terrorism.
"I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans," said Paul, who has been a leading voice in his party for privacy from government intrusion. "The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights."
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That is basically how I think.
Use your mind...or perish.
Something as simple as having on board books such as Emergency Navigation seems to escape a lot of people these days. So my opinion of them is "you cared so little for your lives why should we risk ours now that you are in trouble."
The nice thing about living in an area with on again off again internet reminds me I can look out the window for a weather report, look down the street for a traffic report and as for the rest of it there's not much of real importance.
I'm sure I would miss my occasional Amazon orders far far more than anything the news has to offer. Preceded or followed by instant research. But it augments not replaces any decent library if there is such a thing any more.
As for our permission? When was that made a requirement? Certainly not since the 1930's for broadcast information such as tv and radio or just communication such as cell phones.
As far as electricity is concerned I flip two switches and change to full solar and wind generated electricity. then think of what I should cook in the little freezer unit which is going to take 24 to 72 hours to thaw out anyway.
If you can't say the same thing the next move is knees on floor hands clasped and lots of intense supplications Who knows it might work?
The problem is that the voting populace needs to have it articulated in simple terms such as: Think about how you would live in a society where there was no internet and no electricity.
Now: Think about how the government could suddenly make that happen without your knowledge not permission.
THAT is an abstraction upon an abstraction.
Based upon what our government actually is doing it isn't such a remote and non-personal possibility.
Christy using the excuse of protecting the American People, allows the massacre of the 4th Amendment. His failure to respond to Paul's accusations labels him as a dictator waiting in the wings. We already have a violator of the Constitution in office. We don't need another.
These wonderful thinkers wrote in abstractions.
They realized human nature would eventually take over the government and the Bill of Rights was written so that citizens would be free from an overbearing, problem-creating government.
Hopefully, Rand has some impact in the area of abstractions and can "dumb it down" for the average citizen.
You are going to ignore the text of the rest of the bill of rights ? Sorry, not rational or convincing. If you want to say SOME of the bill of rights specifically restrict government, while others are broader and protect rights against all, then I would agree. ;^)
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