Failed Constitution, Failed State

Since the year 2000 when Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney illegally took occupation of the White House, and more particularly beginning in 2003 when word spread about Patriot I and then Patriot II, and still more recently when information hit the mainstream corporate media that every American is spied on by corporate entities like Verizon and AT&T, that all our phone calls, emails and site visits are being recorded into a gigantic underground database, as a result more and more – perhaps millions of Americans - are raising a hue and cry over the fact that this wretched, evil empire called the Neocon Administration is stripping Americans of their constitutional rights. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), is at the helm of the struggle, as evidenced by their recent book called The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, which delineates how the people’s most fundamental political rights as guaranteed in the US Constitution are being trampled upon as never before in the history of this nation. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is close on their tail, filing cases left and right to protect the rights of ordinary citizens. Bush has tossed the Magna Carta into the dustbin and thrown habeas corpus to the winds. Today any American of any color, class or gender can be locked up and held without charges and without trial forever. It is a bleak era in American history. Yet, maybe we need to rethink this issue of being stripped of our constitutional rights since the year 2000. How many of those rights did we actually have before 2000? Maybe we need to do a background check on what rights were guaranteed, if at all, to the American people, and how many of those rights ever got manifested.