>>-- rights cannot be taken away except by due process.
>>..unless you redefine what is considered "rights" (which after 200+ years will happen).
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>>No it won't. The rights guaranteed by the constitution require a 2/3
>>majority of all states to repeal. So it won't happen.
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>I believe Victor is referring to the state of things, rather than the rule of law. The fact that we had the 21st amendment (which repealed the 18th amendment), for example, as a new law to change the standard operating procedure in America. That was due process. That followed the rule of law. But, since then, we haven't really needed an amendment to take away people's rights. And since the people haven't risen up against it, their rights have slowly been eroded without many of them realizing it because we now have many privileges which mimic the rights we used to possess.
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>I think much of America is waking up to the reality of that, however. Enough to start "spreading the news" as it were.
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>Modern U.S. policy is simply to declare things: a "war on drugs," or a "war on poverty," or this ridiculous "war on terror," policy changes which affect how much data various governmental agencies will hold on people and for how long, etc. People have gotten used to the idea that we don't need due process to change our nation's long standing policy any longer. It's like we're a democracy all of a sudden, and not a constitutional republic with democratically elected leaders. The two are not the same. :-)
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>A warning:
>The time between now and the soon coming end is going to become absolutely ferocious. Dog eat dog. Time is short, and all of the anti-Christ spirits out there know they don't have much longer before they are cast into Hell, the eternal lake of fire. There is no defense against those spirits outside of Jesus Christ. All who are without Him are lost. And all who are with Him are going to have a difficult time, but will be saved. It is time for those who hear God's call to answer Him.

How about you answer to Him and stop proselytizing to Us? Enough already. This is not the place for it.