Just A Goddamned Piece Of Paper
Saturday, December 10th, 2005 -- by Bacchus
If you’ve followed the stories in recent months about the legal and political threats to your freedom of sexual expression, you may have been wondering what happened to the First Amendment. Here’s a small clue. In President Bush’s own words:
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
Full story here.
I mention this because I want everyone to understand the danger. When the chief official sworn to support and defend our constitution forswears that duty in front of numerous similarly-sworn witnesses, it’s over. Please don’t base your strategies for survival in these trying times on the constitutional protections you learned about in grade school. They are, quite literally, history.
We now return your to your regularly-scheduled smut.