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Thu Mar 7, 2013, 12:13 PM Mar 2013

It’s ALEC Not President Obama That is Trampling Constitutional Rights

When the Founding Fathers created the Constitution, besides setting a blueprint for how the young country would be governed, they devised the first ten amendments as protections for the people and aptly named them “the Bill of Rights,” and designated certain areas the government could not intrude on citizens in a free society. Shortly after Barack Obama began his first term in 2009, so-called patriots began decrying their loss of liberty because an African American sat in the Oval Office, and since then have kept up a steady cry that the President was “shredding the Constitution” and encroaching on their rights as freedom-loving patriotic Americans despite any evidence their constitutional rights were being trampled on. However, there is a group of Americans attempting to force, through legislation, a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights and it is not President Obama, but Republicans and their legislative arm the corporate-controlled American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The founders sought to protect Americans from government agents indiscriminately targeting citizens and searching them, and wrote the Fourth Amendment that says; “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.” Besides legal protection, it guaranteed Americans could be secure in their private lives and that without good reason, no government or law enforcement agent could search for or seize private property based on appearance, gossip, or stereotype borne of financial standing, race, or associations. Prodded by ALEC, seven states enacted their model legislation allowing states to unreasonably search low-income, unemployed, and sick Americans’ bodies for no other reason than they were victims of Republicans’ job-killing economic agenda.

http://www.politicususa.com/alec-president-obama-trampling-constitutional-rights.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicus+USA+%29

ALEC is a right-wing lobbying group disguised as a charity. The Kockroaches are behind the trampling of constitutional rights.

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