Justice Stephen Breyer claims the Founding Fathers would have acted differently if they had written the Constitution today. He talks about the Internet and air travel, two issues the federal government is feverishly working on to rob Americans of their rights. Read what he said:
Breyer said on "Fox News Sunday" that the Constitution was written well before the develop of the Internet, air travel and other modern institutions, which means there are no clear-cut answers in the document.
"Turn to any page," Breyer said. "It (the Constitution) uses words like liberty. It uses words like interstate commerce. It uses words like the freedom of speech. They stand for values. They don't tell you how to apply those words to the world of the Internet."'
Now ask yourself? Print has gone from parchment to a computer screen... why would the Founding Fathers think any different of free speech today just because words are on a computer screen? Or, look at the case of air travel, the founding fathers had ships back in their day. Knowing what you know about the Founding Fathers, do you think they would approve of King George's Red Coats feeling up their wives breasts while claiming to be looking for bombs?
Why would the transition and advancement of technology change the philosophies of the Founding Fathers? I am afraid the writing is on the wall. They are looking for wiggle room to continue to justify the government's oppression that is spreading in airports in the form of checkpoints and will soon restrict free speech on the Internet. Can't you hear morons like Stephen Breyer, a Scotus, try to make the case our Founding Fathers would no longer approve of free speech or the right to be secure in your persons?
The fact is there are clear-cut answers. Free speech is free speech, whether it be from your mouth, on newsprint, or on this screen in front of you. It doesn't matter, but obviously Justice Breyer is starting to make the case for the federal government the Internet should not be treated as an equal media when it comes to free speech. As well, his idea that air travel is any different than any other travel in the most basic form is ludicrous. You leave point A to get to point B, and this was true in the Founding Fathers' day. Trust me, the wheels are turning at SCOTUS to justify oppressive federal government. That's what I hear in these words.