Constitution Day
QuestionGirl September 17th, 2007 - 9:39 am
Today is Constitution Day. Not alot of people know that. Or care. You should care. Why? Many reasons, not the least of them……..
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
Constitution Day was created by Congress in 2004. It was the brainchild of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who carries a copy of the Constitution in his pocket. The law requires any school and college receiving federal money to teach about the Constitution on or about Sept. 17. It appears, if they are teaching it, the students aren’t getting it.
I wonder how many congressmen and women get it. I bet not many of them would pass a test on the Constitution. I’m thinking there SHOULD be a test on the Constitution for anyone who enters congress. For every President and Vice President and Attorney General………hell, let’s go all the way and say every government employee has to pass a test on the Constitution.
I plan on spending some time today studying the Constitution. I suggest the people who are running our country do the same. And if you have kids…… you might want to teach them their constitutional rights at home, because odds are they aren’t going to learn them at school. They need to know it’s NOT just a goddamned piece of paper. And so does our President!
September 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Qgirl, they only study it to try to circumvent it.
Yoo and Addington are supposedly intelligent, but their legal moves (urged on by Cheney) were obviously unconstitutional to anyone who’s had a decent high school education, let alone a law degree. In Yoo’s case, I think he may be delusional, while Addington is a power-hungry authoritarian. Addington and Cheney certainly knew what they were doing was illegal and would face opposition. Why else issue a “secret” torture memo that your own Secretary of State and National Security Advisor only learn of two years later by reading The Washington Post?!?