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WI: Do we really deserve the Bill of Rights?
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Americans often patronize other cultures from a point of view of cultural supremacy. We project it as a "city on the hill" which others should look at for inspiration. Reading the sublime language of the "Bill of Rights" – that perspective is not out of place; but sadly those minds are long gone and today's America is no different from the rest of the world.
Surely the inertial push of the "Bill of Rights" is helping us move forward but today's America, sadly, looks like an infant carrying a diamond ring. It does not know what it has
and would gladly trade it for a toy made out of clay. |
| Comment by:
happymisanthropy
(5/7/2007)
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| But if America really were infallible, we wouldn't NEED the Bill of Rights. |
| Comment by:
thefarm10
(5/7/2007)
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| there's nothing wrong with the constitution it's the actions that are taken in the name of political correctness that need to be curtailed. |
| Comment by:
ovcharka@sbcglobal.net
(5/7/2007)
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I note that the writer is a Muslim emigree from Pakistan.
This clown has the cajones to questions whether the USA needs the Bill of Rights, when he hails from an Islamofascist society?!
The Bill of Rights provides for no establishment of a religion by the government, unlike where this Paki comes from. There, the mosque is the state.
I had rather be a dog that bays the moon, than live in a country where law is imposed by imams and mullahs, where alcohol and pork chop sandwiches are forbidden, and where women clad in shorts can be stoned to death.
Which begs the question: WHY did this Paki come to the USA to begin with, if he questions our Bill of Rights? |
| Comment by:
BlackKnight86
(5/7/2007)
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| ovcharka, did you actually read the article? It sounded to me that he was questioning the approach of those people who want to restrict the BoR, not the other way around. While he focused on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh, and not the Second; he still appears to be philosophically in agreement with us. |
| Comment by:
anonymous
(5/7/2007)
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| Please take the time to read this article. It is written in a satirical manner. The author clearly thinks we should do more to defend the Bill of Rights. He does not advocate restricting any of the rights but shows how the government has done so since 9/11. |
| Comment by:
TimJenkin
(5/7/2007)
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Americans often patronize other cultures from a point of view of cultural supremacy. We project it as a "city on the hill" which others should look at for inspiration. Reading the sublime language of the "Bill of Rights" – that perspective is not out of place; but sadly those minds are long gone and today's America is no different from the rest of the world.
Yeah America is more like , "Silent Hill." |
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