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Whatever happened to protecting innocent people from guilty people? I checked out the webpage and found a video, but no presentation of what and how "we" should be protecting anything. The video starts out with revisionist history, telling a fictional story of how American somehow started with that Constitution in 1787.
That is worst than a half-truth, it is aiding, abetting, lending support to criminals. If there is a way to return to rule of law, which includes many fundamental rights, such as the fundamental right to protect the innocent victims from the guilty criminals, then present, please, the means to that end.
If the idea is to "protect" a document written by criminals, signed by criminals, and criminally enforced by criminals, then that idea is already well demonstrated.
George Mason Speech Virginia RATifying Convention
June 04, 1788
"M. Chairman—Whether the Constitution be good or bad, the present clause clearly discovers, that it is a National Government, and no longer a confederation. I mean that clause which gives the first hint of the General Government laying direct taxes. The assumption of this power of laying direct taxes, does of itself, entirely change the confederation of the States into one consolidated Government. This power being at discretion, unconfined, and without any kind of controul, must carry every thing before it. The very idea of converting what was formerly confederation, to a consolidated Government, is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us. This power is calculated to annihilate totally the State Governments. Will the people of this great community submit to be individually taxed by two different and distinct powers? Will they suffer themselves to be doubly harrassed? These two concurrent powers cannot exist long together; the one will destroy the other: The General Government being paramount to, and in every respect more powerful than, the State governments, the latter must give way to the former."