Monday, April 11, 2011

Challenge for My fellow US Citizens!

Just as I am beginning to admit there are people who have greater cognitive abilites than some other members of the same human race, I think about it, and wonder if knowing right from wrong is more important than intelligence. And that doesn't take intelligence, or does it? I have recently come to believe that if I truly feel something is right then it is my obligation to support it. It doesn't take intelligence to just do the right thing. Often times I am wrong in my support of a position. Someone explains the error in my understanding and I learn something new. Thanks for the lesson. Sorry to have bothered you. Have a nice day. Other times, I know I am right but am open to the possibility of being wrong if a valid argument can be presented. Let's take the 4th Amendment to the BILL OF RIGHTS for goodness sake. For you non US Citizens, the BILL OF RIGHTS is what makes us citizens here where I am, inside the borders of the United States, U.S. Citizens. I'm not passing judgement on any other nation, just explaining how ours is supposed to work. So this BILL OF RIGHTS is where we citizens get our payoff for abiding by the laws set forth in the Constitution. For you Judeo/Christian/maybe Muslims, I don't know, the BILL OF RIGHTS is to a US citizen what the ten commandments are to Judeos/Christians/Mulims if they recognize the ten commandments as really important things not to do. In this case it is ten commandments of really important things for our government never to do. Period. "You can't do it without answering me", sayeth the Lord kind of thing only in this case God is not our collective souls universally but our collective bodies (and souls) nationally. I'm sure your country has a similar document, if not you should see about having one made up. They are really worthwhile, if you, the citizen, makes sure it is followed by them, the people you elected to preserve and protect the Constitution. So anyway we have this 4th Amendment that trumps all the rules our government can make up, and they are talented at making rules. It says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." I understand we are quite bright as a nation but as I have said before a well educated rock can make perfect sense of this. Where does it say the government can grab my gonads because I want to get on an airplane? Am I a criminal suspect because I want to get on an airplane? No! Did someone swear out a complaint against me before I boarded the plane? No! (Often times after but NEVER before a flight.) Did a Federal Judge give you permission to grab my specific US Citizen, served 10 years in the Navy, family walked from Virgina to the midwest starting in 1710, gonads? No! (I live in Florida now, can't imagine why they headed off where they did but that's beside the point.). Here's my challenge fellow US Citizens!. Someone 'splain to simple old me how you can obey the 4th amendment and still grab my gonads, if you're the government, that is, unless I grant you an exception to the 4th Amendment which the 4th amendment specifically prevents me from doing. Of course for you ladies out there know that the 4th Amendment only applies to the U.S. government and my urologist. You girls go on having your fun. There is this bar in Vegas... In fact if TSA were to contract with some professionals from Vegas for inspectors or at least training...never mind. Bad idea. The challenge remains, How do you logically go from the 4th Amendment to grabbing a fellow US Citizen's prized, though mostly only for conversation anymore (with my urologist of course, geez, you people), gonads? I anxiously await your replies. Thank you very much for your support, assuming.

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