Children don’t understand that Batman is himself a criminal, and a threat to the security of the people of Gotham. They’ll never see a movie in which Batman makes a mistake, and persecutes an innocent person he suspects of being an arch-villain. In real life, government agents given the dark vigilante role that Batman represents make those mistakes on a very frequent basis.

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Senator Mikulski has become one of the enemies of the Constitution she swore an Oath to work against. That’s why Democrats who still care about the Constitution are turning their backs on Barbara Mikulski, and organizing to challenge her right to represent the Democratic Party in the United States Senate when she is up for re-election in 2010.

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Saying that the FISA Amendments Act is ‘a bill going through Congress giving immunity to telephone companies involved in the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wiretap programme’ is like saying that a giraffe is an animal with ears.

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Well, that’s it. Barack Obama has failed to support the filibuster of H.R. 6304, the bill to gut the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and legalize warrantless wiretaps and physical searches. A number of people are asking themselves how they can support a presidential candidate who fails to protect and defend the Constitution […]

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Shakowsky said, “The Bush Administration has put forward the idea that Congress must choose between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I disagree wholeheartedly with this premise. The Congress can and must take stronger steps to protect the civil liberties of ever American, to do anything less is simply contrary to everything for which this country has stood.”

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This is the section of the law that allows physical searches of your home or office at the President’s whim. It starts out looking like a protection from unreasonable physical searches, but please read all the way to the end. There, you’ll find a couple of clauses that strip away all protection from physical search without a warrant, and put the power right into the hands of the President’s top aides and political appointees.

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Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia seems to hate the idea that all Americans are equal under the law. Representative Broun has proposed a new amendment to the Constitution to create a loophole around the 14th amendment. The new amendment aims to reduce the number of marriages in America by restricting marriage to only heterosexual couples.

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It seems that Obama is setting up one important foundation of his experience as a campaign asset: His experience as a professor in constitutional law. I just don’t hear John McCain, or Hillary Clinton for that matter, talk about the need to restore constitutional rights in the way that Barack Obama does. It’s no wonder that Senator Dodd chose Barack Obama to endorse.

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On December 4 2007, Steve Inskeep of NPR News asked the Democratic presidential candidates whether they, if elected, would encourage American citizens to ferret out and turn in illegal immigrants to law enforcement authorities. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio answered the question by evoking the Americanism of Emma Lazarus:
Rely on the Constitution. You know, […]

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A green face animated video discusses the sham promise of Homeland Security, that we can all be safe if only we sacrifice our liberty.

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