"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government"
--Patrick Henry
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Why Aren't You Following the Constitution?
by Steve Osborn
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Dear Mr. Obama:
We have seen the Constitution and Bill of Rights, that have been the rule and guide of our nation for over two centuries, shredded by the executive branch, and this shredding seems to have been approved by both the legislative and judicial branches.
We the People have watched with dismay as our civil rights have been criminalized by the government. You spoke to us of change; you spoke to us of rebuilding America; you said you would close Guantánamo and end torture as a United States policy; you said you would return habeas corpus, and that you would uphold the law.
Many of us were very concerned as we watched you pick your cabinet and found that most of them were the same old retreads that have caused the problem over the last two or three decades. We noted with dismay that very few, if any, dedicated to peace, dedicated to law, dedicated to the environment, were brought into your government.
Now we find that you are apparently going to continue the policies of the past eight years, and even augment them with increased policies of surveillance, of imprisonment, possibly even rationalizing torture again, and indulging in still wider and more deadly wars against indigenous populations in the Middle East, most of whom's only crime is that of poverty, a dislike of foreign occupation, and the fact that many of them live on top of what we apparently consider our oil
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