First amendment in danger

That's 100! Now that'll teach you to attack a great American Institution like Irrelevancy

[Barrett]

Mike: A great big attaboy on your "century." I won't make a prediction in so volatile an environment, but just look where Al's thread went. And we're only 20% through the Bill of Rights. (The Third Amendment doesn't get much ink these days, but it could happen...)
Quick: a gold cyberstar for the first one to post the topic of the 3rd. Hint: Mao alluded to the same topic in his Little Red Book.

What, no mention of Sailors, Marines or Coast Guardsmen? Obviously an oversight.

[mike_baram]

Third? Hell, I've know females who would have welcomed an entire brigade in their homes, and outlasted 'em.
What interests me is the VIIth....
"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed TWENTY dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved,......"
Now we're talking about beaucoup bucks here, people.

Mike,
Yeah, it's called PALIMONY!
VBR,
Jim

[stephen]

Phooey on this Third Amendment stuff. Let's jump straight to the Fourth and talk about cops who stop you on the road with no suspicion or probable cause whatsoever and forcibly search your car for booze and seat belt usage.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Oops. Ain't that a daisy? Oughtta be good for another 30 posts.

The failed drug war has whittled the 4th ammendment to almost nothing. The cure is truely worse than the disease.

Back up to Mike Baram's reply and consider this: The name of this thread is... Important words are Amendment in Danger.
The 7th is meaningless because it refered to Continental Dollars. It should be $2000 today.
Back to the second, retaining the thought that the revisionists say the Bill of Rights is obsolete. The well regulated militia was abolished as a Federally funded entity by Kennedy, when he disbanded all forms of Civil Defense.
The one federal office that kept the second amendment alive was the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, that provided free rifles and ammunition to civilian gun clubs for use of members at no cost. Kennedy managed to throttle this also. Incidentally, the DCM was organized by President Grant as a result of his seeing what happened to city boys who are given a rifle and pushed into the front lines. He thought they should have a chance at survival. Unfortunately, the DCM was not mentioned in the second amendment. The revisionists say the whole constitution and especially the second amendment are obsolete. "They" are members of "The New Constitutional Convention, Inc."
Now that each person has been given the alternatives of buying one's own weapons or going without, the result is chaos. It could easily be put right by having congress adequately fund the DCM once more.
You figure out what to do to put the 7th amendment right...I can't. But, I have great confidence in you glib talkers out there.

[Barrett]

Dan is right about the dept of civilian marksmanship (DCM), which has been deflated to the Civilian Marksmanship Program, probably destined for extermination when the surplus rifle supply runs out. (Mandatory WW I content: NRA instructors were called upon to teach the doughboys 'cause in '17 the army didn't have enough rifles, ranges, or instructors; same thing in WW II--hey, we don't learn too fast, do we?)
Third Amendment: Mao's Little Red Book insisted that guerrillas (who swim among the people as fish swim in water) remember to replace doors on their hinges after RONing at peasant homes. Not much of a mattress but I guess it beats sleeping in the paddy.
Semi-related content on quartering of troops. Remember Bob Hope's old Revolutionary War skit with the luscious Ann Margret? He says, "Yes sir, she's a real patriot. I know because at 3 o'clock this morning she declared her independence."
Two rimshots and a cymbal...

Saw a lady in the park this morning and all I could think of was: Hey, those wing tanks haven't been invented yet!
Jeni, are you taking the weekend off, or what?