A Prayer for America
I offer this prayer for America.
How can we justify in effect canceling the First Amendment and the right of free speech, and the right to peacefully assemble?
How can we justify, in effect, the canceling the Fourth Amendment, probable cause, the prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure?
How can we justify, in effect, canceling the Fifth Amendment, nullifying due process, allowing for indefinite incarceration without a trial?
How can we justify, in effect, canceling the Sixth Amendment, the right to prompt and public trial?
How can we justify, in effect, canceling the Eighth Amendment which protects against cruel and unusual punishment?
We cannot justify widespread wiretaps and internet surveillance without judicial supervision, let alone with it.
We cannot justify secret searches without a warrant.
We cannot justify giving the Attorney General the ability to designate domestic terror groups.
We cannot justify giving the FBI total access to any type of data which may exist in any system anywhere, including medical and financial records.
We cannot justify giving the CIA the ability to target people in this country for domestic intelligence and intelligence surveillance.
We cannot justify a government which takes from the people our right to privacy and then assumes for its own operations a right to total secrecy.
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