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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou can believe in the constitution and not be a libertarian
just letting some of those know that this is possible.
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You can believe in the constitution and not be a libertarian (Original Post)
Harmony Blue
Jun 2013
OP
Senator Joeseph McCarthy: "I have a list of 205 Communists in the State Department"....
former9thward
Jun 2013
#6
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)1. Well, duh!
n/t
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)2. And apparently you can be a Paulite and find a home on DU.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)4. I've compiled a list of 73 Paulites on DU. How many are on your list?
former9thward
(32,012 posts)6. Senator Joeseph McCarthy: "I have a list of 205 Communists in the State Department"....
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)7. Exactly.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)11. Funny how no one ever got to see that 'list,' eh? - nt
former9thward
(32,012 posts)12. Well in later speeches he kept revising the numbers.
He got as low as 10 one time.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)9. Eerily reminiscent of another 'list' in American history (Joseph
McCarthy's). Hope you were being facetious.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)13. Trust me! Luminous is not a member of the HUAC
think
(11,641 posts)3. The constitution is so yesterday. Didn't you here. We can just trust the government now
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)5. One can also "believe in" the Constitution...
and not understand one fucking word of it.
Not a call out, BTW, just an observation.
Anyway, what's not to believe?
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)8. LOL! So true!
And that's one of the true issues at the heart of this whole "NSA leak" pseudo-scandal. Some people claim that it violates the 4th Amendment because of the lack of "probable cause warrants".
In fact, it does not if you actually read the leaked documents.
treestar
(82,383 posts)14. Yep Tired of the idea that
things the courts have held up are violations of the Fourth Amendment in some uninformed person's view and they smugly type up or cut and paste the Fourth Amendment as if that's all there is to it.
rug
(82,333 posts)10. The converse is not true.