Funny shit. This is still my favorite fight though because a much older man(and a legend) pummels a much younger one.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aa1_1280296883
The Supreme Court has to say something about the (un)constitutionality of this.
You might think "well duh" but it's not quite that obvious. There's probably still some loophole that allows this junk to be done.
The problem with the Supreme Court is that there are barely anymore Originalists(or as I prefer to call them Textualists) who interpret the Constitution only by its plain meaning of the words on the page.
What we have instead are the "living document" people to who the Constitution is little more than a collection of Rorshach inkblots to be interpreted(translation: twisted) for whatever their political agendas may be that day. The problem with that is that there is no objective base and the overriding dogma becomes privy to populism. There is no more rule of law, only the rule of opinion. And IMO, this makes the Supreme Court no different than just another legislative body who wear robes under the guise of Judges(except that we didn't appoint them).
All that aside, anytime there is room for mischief in any government practice, the more you dig and unearth, the more you fill find that it exists. It's the same thing with electronic voting and not actually having your votes count. Anywhere where this has been tried(even in its early stages), there has been corruption.
Similarly with the immigration law. Many people don't realize that racial profiling is only the tiny picture here. The real problem is the further erosion of the already dead and decaying 4th Amendment. Myriad government surveillance is
already doing a damn good job of making everybody a potential suspect(guilty until proven innocent). What this law does is provide the police with yet even another form of
encroachment into our lives and another reason to hassle people, mexicans or not. What we definitely don't need is more motives for cops to stop people on a whim.
And it simply lays the ground for more mischief. Anytime, you ever hear language like, "The police will be responsible enforcing this new legislation", it is extremely dangerous and downright scary. Period.
As Michael Cloud has said, "The problem isn't the abuse of power, it is the power to abuse."
What we don't need is to give them
anymore power.
My wild idea would be to trade all of the illegals who would be loyal to the Constitution for all of the natural born American citizens who despise it. Far too many people have sheepishly let this government run amok and the politicans have wantonly turned their backs upon the American people and have become outright treasonous.
So in short Valerie, we're fucked.
So have a drink and toast to the revolutionary heroes who fought against the Writs Of Assistance and made the 4th Amendment possible. It was good while it lasted.
