Originally Posted by
Bart
Our Constitution is still in great shape. The checks and balances still work.
Yes, the c&b apparatus is intact. And I'm in essential alignment with your outlook, Bart -- except for the shape of the Constitution. C&B is not much of a factor when the question of Due Process itself, as in Hamdi, is on trial.
What's troubling upon review of the
nearly 4-1/2 years of subject titles in this forum is that annual security spending rockets ever higher with nil to no abatement of the hassles for the flying public. Why is that? If more $ = better safety then I'd love to know who all these people are sleeping better at night than me. There must be hundreds of thousands of them given the billions dropped. (And you know, I marvel at how the Colgate-Palmolive company managed never to be implicated in a binary explosives plot before last August -- 4.6 oz. tubes of toothpaste in the pax cabin, I ask you!) The avalanche of nonsense coming out of the TSA press office is just shameful.
No one party has had a decisive advantage over the other. I see it; I'm genuinely surprised that you don't.
The problem is with the view that it's a true two-party system. It's not. If the Politburo had had a Communist Party A and a Communist Party B, and switch them in power from time to time, we would still have a very powerful Soviet Union today. I see no benefit to "no one party [having] a decisive advantage over the other." I see the current impasse' as an abject failure.
Liberty is very fragile, and we should protect it jealously. Nothing I've said has contradicted this. All I ask for is a little bit of perspective and context. Perhaps I expect too much.
I'm not jealous of the liberty we have left; I mourn what's lost. Run with that perspective for a spell and get back to us about what context we're dropping. I'll be curious to know.
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