In Pertinent Part
To protect the citizenry against the abuse of State Power. We fought hard a revolution where dead soldiers litter fields on a Mountain called Valley Forge, redefended the union in a battlefield called Gettysburg and in countless other places where American lives were lost on American soil to protect us against the abuse of State power against the citizenry.
The backdrop of the 4th Amendment against unlawful unwarranted searches and seizures and the penumbral privacy right was that British soldiers were "quartered", just posted, living off the fat of the land and the good cooking of Americans who farmed and raised their food for the soldier squatters to pilfer at will and invade their space bunking in their homes. "Quartering" was a widespread practice and we just had to deal with it.
Boston had enough first.
The rest of the country had courage to throw off the tyranny of abusive State Power.
It's about more than Race in Boston. It's about a Policeman misunderstanding his power and abusing it. It's about violating the security of someone in their own residence. It's about exactly what we fought a revolution for. It's a Professor saying-you don't know who you are messing with- because this Professor knows his constitutional rights. It's not about an arrogant Professor- or someone caught in a "script" as Jim Wallace wants to declare. It's about someone
who knows what America stands for and that it applies equally to him.
The privacy rape of a person in their own residence by someone abusing their State powers of enforcement authority is unconstitutional, unamerican and indecent.
No, the Professor was not here unduly arrogant- he was standing for all of us, White, Black, Brown, Yellow or Green- All of us who inherited the benefits of a Revolution fought against King George and his quartered soldiers living off our labors.
No comments:
Post a Comment