The addition of the Bill of Rights was the compromise made with those who feared the future abuses by a strong central government. Here are current examples of what they feared.
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News SHOCK POLICE STATE VIDEO: “You Have No Right To Be In Here! You Have No Right to Be In Here!”
05-17-2013
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Law enforcement officers indicated they would be entering the home because of “domestic violence.” Baffled that the residents of the home refused to exit, one officer asked why they wouldn’t respond to their order.
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News Activist Adam Kokesh has history of rabble-rousing and self-promotion
05-15-2013
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Washington Post
Activist Adam Kokesh has asked 1,000 people to march across the Potomac on July 4 carrying loaded rifles. He calls it a protest against “tyranny.” Suppose the D.C. police, as they have promised, block the marchers from crossing into Washington?
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News GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES
05-12-2013
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A letter explicitly states it is intended as "a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country," the Departments of Justice AND Education have mandated a breathtakingly broad definition of sexual harassment
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News Stabbing the 4th Amendment
05-02-2013
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Andrew P. Napolitano via LewRockwell.com
Here they go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us.
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News FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer
05-01-2013
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http://www.politico.com, By JOSH GERSTEIN
An article published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggests that FBI agents are on solid legal ground if they continue to question a terrorism suspect who has asked for an attorney—as they reportedly did with Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar
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News NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial
04-29-2013
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AP
After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker. That was the least of his problems.
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News U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance
04-28-2013
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c/Net
Justice Department agreed to issue "2511 letters" immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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News President Obama To Ban Importation of Ammo
04-24-2013
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http://marketdailynews.com
Over the course of the last month, while Americans were distracted with the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the devastation wrought by the Boston bombings...
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News What Are Miranda Rights?
04-22-2013
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Marc Lallanilla via LiveScience.com
To fans of television cop dramas, the Miranda warning has a familiar ring:
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News Dad Furious ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’
04-12-2013
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The Blaze
The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.
"I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."
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News IRS Violates Fourth Amendment
04-11-2013
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Kurt Nimmo via PrisonPlanet.com
The Internal Revenue Service believes it is not beholden to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and can read your email without a warrant
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News IRS: We can read emails without warrant
04-11-2013
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http://thehill.com, By Brendan Sasso
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.
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News New England Town Declares Food Soveignty
03-25-2013
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"It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance." - The key word is recognized.
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H. Skip Robinson
News Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update)
03-28-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Gregory Grice was 16-years-old, when he ventured to a New York train station to take some photos in 2011. But that didn’t stop police from arresting him while calling him a terrorist.
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News FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
03-27-2013
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Salon
Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made
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Letters to the Editor Retained by the People – Reserved to the People
Written by: Dennis Treybil
From whence come the rights retained by the people (in the 9th amendment) and the powers reserved to the people (in the 10th amendment)?
In the Declaration of Independence, the answer to this question is contained in five different phrases:
The Cre
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News Freedom to Travel gets its day in court
03-25-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
I was not optimistic that Freedom To Travel would carry the day in a lawsuit against the TSA, but they're scored a legal victory in the preliminaries, so heartiest congrats to them!
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Headlines: Freedom to Travel gets its day in court -- Retained by the People – Reserved to the People -- FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013 -- Teenage Railfan Sues Over Unlawful Arrest (and Other Rail News, Including Metrorail Update) -- New England Town Declares Food Soveignty -- IRS: We can read emails without warrant -- IRS Violates Fourth Amendment -- Dad Furious ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’ -- What Are Miranda Rights? -- President Obama To Ban Importation of Ammo -- U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance -- NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial -- FBI hints at OK to question terror suspects who ask for lawyer -- Stabbing the 4th Amendment -- GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES -- Activist Adam Kokesh has history of rabble-rousing and self-promotion -- SHOCK POLICE STATE VIDEO: “You Have No Right To Be In Here! You Have No Right to Be In Here!” --
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