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Personally, I celebrate “Constitution Day” by ignoring the Constitution.

Kirk: Bush has already stated his position on the Constitution and, as a corrollary, what the document means. His quote: “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper.”

Well. Isn’t it just a goddamned piece of paper?

Kirk: After calling our founding document that assures our freedom a “goddamned piece of paper”, …

You count on the United States Constitution to assure your freedom? Really? How’s that been working out for you lately?

Jim: Unfortunately, almost everything that the government does regarding alleged narcotics violators has been exempt from the Constitution since about 1986.

If they passed a Constitutional Amendment that would make it constitutional for the narcs to arbitrarily harass, search, seize, beat, restrain, storm the houses, and confiscate the property of people in order to carry on the War on Unauthorized Drugs, would that make it somehow O.K., or even one jot less evil?

“… whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” — Lysander Spooner (1870)