{"id":368496,"date":"2018-07-08T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-constitution-is-not-neutral\/"},"modified":"2018-07-08T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T06:50:53","slug":"the-constitution-is-not-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-constitution-is-not-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution is Not Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Justice William O. Douglas<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For those still deluded enough to believe they\u2019re living the American dream\u2014where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people\u2014it\u2019s time to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer have a representative government, a rule of law, or justice.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty has fallen to legalism.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom has fallen to fascism.<\/p>\n<p>Justice has become jaded, jaundiced and just plain unjust.<\/p>\n<p>And for too many, the American dream of freedom and opportunity has turned into a living nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Given the turbulence of our age, with its police overreach, military training drills on American soil, domestic surveillance, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, wrongful convictions, profit-driven prisons, and corporate corruption, the need for a guardian of the people\u2019s rights has never been greater.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as the events of recent years have made clear, neither the president, nor the legislatures, nor the courts will save us from the police state that holds us in its clutches.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the president, the legislatures, and the courts are all on the government\u2019s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0the police state.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/06\/the-constitution-is-not-neutral\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.\u201d \u2014Justice William O. Douglas For those still deluded enough to believe they\u2019re living the American dream\u2014where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}