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Violations of Americans Constitutional Rights

Johnny Dunn
EN1420
26 MAY 2014




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Violations of Americans Constitutional Rights
How Americans Constitutional Rights are being violated by The US government,
referencing Amendment I, Amendment II, and Amendment IV of The US Constitution.
Amendment I violations enabled by the US Patriot Act allows the government to monitor
religious and political groups without suspecting criminal activity. This directly ignores the 1
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Amendment stating, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Further US Patriot Act infractions of the 1
st
Amendment,
allows the government to prosecute librarians or any other record keepers if they tell anyone
about government subpoenaed information. Congress seems to have forgotten the section stating,
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech. The Government seizure of the Associated
Press phone records and calling reporter James Rosen a possible co-conspirator ignored the 1
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Amendments protection of freedom of the press (Willans, 2013).,
Amendment II violations started very early on with the National Firearms Act (1934),
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (1968), Gun Control Act of 1968 (1968)
(McNiff, 2014). All of these and the countless other bills that are currently being written
attempting to suppress your right to bear arms are by their very existence in blatant disregard of
the 2
nd
Amendment. As written, A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed (Congress,
1789). Infinite explanation of such simple words shouldnt be continually necessary.
Laws such as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the Patriot Act,
the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and every other law that violates our 1
st
and
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Amendment rights are destroying our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The
Patriot Act alone makes it allowable to search and seize US citizens papers and effects without
probable cause, to assist in a terror investigation (CCAPA, 2003). Using this, the NSA and
other government agencies have been collecting phone records, personal records, internet usage
habits, and other meta data of innocents without their knowledge (Kopczynski, 2013). The
American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit in court challenging the interpretation of the Patriot
Act as a violation of Americans constitutional rights. The Patriot Act expanded the
government's power to use eavesdropping, surveillance, access to financial and computer records
and other tools to track terrorist suspects (Lichtblau, 2003). This has opened the door for the
NDAA which seemingly gave the government oversight of your everyday lives. While giving
government untethered powers over American citizens.
Further infringement into our lives can be seen in what has happened to Robin Speronis,
a 54 year-old widow. Three years after her husbands death and facing expensive health care
bills, Mrs. Speronis decided to go off grid to save money. Mrs. Speronis bought solar panels
for needed power, propane lanterns for her main source of lighting, and water collection in a
large collection basin, which she purified with colloidal silver. City officials stepped in and
declared Mrs. Speronis was in violation of the International Property Maintenance Code, a
coding law that attempts to regulate how homeowners should live on their own property in the
interest of public safety (Survival Joe, 2014).
Now that we can all see the many ways our rights are being violated and disregarded in
just these few examples; government intimidation of the press, NSA spying, and Second
Amendment dismantlement just to name a few. It is our duty as good citizens to remove those in
government that wish to destroy our once great Republic each starting in his or her own state.
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Whether its by vote or outright recall and impeachment in some cases We the People have the
power and authority to enact such measures.
The Declaration of Independence states clearly, We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to affect their Safety and Happiness (Congress, 1789).









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REFERENCES

CCAPA. (2003). Retrieved from http://www.scn.org/ccapa/: http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-vs-
const.html
Congress. (1789). US Consititution, Bill of Rights.
Kopczynski, P. (2013, November 23). Retrieved from www.rt.com: http://rt.com/usa/nsa-bulk-
colleciton-court-case-179/
Lichtblau, E. (2003, April 09). Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/us/nation-war-liberty-security-republicans-want-
terrorism-law-made-permanent.html
McNiff, J. G. (2014). infoplease.com/. Retrieved from
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/guntime1.html#1968
Survival Joe. (2014, April 30). Retrieved from http://survivaljoe.net/:
http://survivaljoe.net/blog/widow-threatened-with-eviction-for-living-off-the-
grid/?utm_source=140503SJ2&utm_campaign=140503SJ2
Willans, P. (2013, July 4). Retrieved from www.policymic.com:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/52889/5-ways-your-constitutional-rights-are-being-
violated