The Rutherford Institute – by John Whitehead
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
It’s been 230 years since James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution—as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny, and what do we have to show for it?
Nothing good.
In America today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.
We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document, but the reality of life in the American police state tells a different story.
“We the people” have been terrorized, traumatized, and tricked into a semi-permanent state of compliance by a government that cares nothing for our lives or our liberties.
The bogeyman’s names and faces have changed over time (terrorism, the war on drugs, illegal immigration, etc.), but the end result remains the same: in the so-called named of national security, the Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago.
Most of the damage has been inflicted upon the Bill of Rights.
Read the rest here: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_bill_of_rights_turns_230_and_what_do_we_have_to_show_for_it_nothing_good
I know we can pick at some of the finer points here, and I hope I can make the time to do so, but at first glance and based on what he says here…
“To the founders, all of America was a free speech zone.”
…a t-shirt emerges: ALL AMERICA IS A FREE SPEECH ZONE.
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PRETTY DECENT READ, BUT THE AUTHOR TRIPS OVER THE CONCEPT OF “ARTICLES”, NEVER MENTIONING “RATIFIED LAW”. CONGRESS DIDNT VOTE 10 TIMES TO RATIFY THE BOR.. THEY ARE LYING, PURPOSEFULLY, REPLACING THE TERM “ARTICLES” WITH “AMMENDMENTS”.
FOR IF THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS TRULY TEN “AMMENDMENTS”, THEN EACH ONE CAN BE VOTED OBSOLETE IN “OUR JEWISH “DEMOCRACY”, ONE AT A TIME.
THIS LIE IS A “CHIPPING MECHANISM”.
(WHEN HENRY PREACHES THE TENETS OF “RATIFIED LAW”, IT SENDS CHILLS DOWN ME SPINE…..)
“We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document, but the reality of life in the American police state tells a different story.”
You can ‘pretend’ whatever you like, John.
We in The Trenches know that THAT rag was NEVER the ‘governing document’ of this country.
“Most of the damage has been inflicted upon the Bill of Rights.”
BINGO!!!
YOU’VE DISCOVERED URANIUM!!!!!