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It's your Fourth Amendment; Protect It, Use It, Enforce It

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Truthout’s July 3d Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We, the People, Can Win Over Washington is a thought provoking piece focusing on the Bush Administration’s hostility to the Fourth Amendment and the Obama Administration’s inability to change it. The article promotes citizen action to restore the Fourth Amendment. But let’s step back to look at the larger picture of why the government does not now, nor ever has, respected the values of the Fourth Amendment. We as a society have to change the government’s thinking about the Fourth Amendment. But, don’t blame Bush or Obama; blame yourself. If the government never has much respected the values of the Fourth Amendment, apparently “We the People,” the collective we, haven’t either...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 04, 2010 (boomark / email).