If we are in pursuit of life, liberty and justice -- what happened to the Justice part?
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What happened to the life and liberty parts?
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This country has already fallen apart and is in chaos.  It is only a matter of time as to when we are under complete UN control and lose the rest of our Constiutional protected rights.\n\nIn Liberty, peace and love,\nEric H. Smith\nwww.erichsmith.com
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Many United State citizens are not putting up with the loss of freedoms.  Just witness the ongoing issue with telephone monitoring by the U.S. government and the response to this.  We want to feel safe yet at the same time want to be free to do what we will and say what we want.  As far as turning into a police state I still do not get stopped by law enforcement to check my papers.  I do not have to pass through checkpoints when driving to work.  I want to travel to another state I do not have to clear this decision with any form of legal authority.  We are far from a police state.
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I think that most people in our country today have no idea what it is like to go without!!  Most of us in America have no idea what injustice and No freedom means, therefore so many of us take it for granted!!! There is no perspective...there is nothing in most of our experience to compare it to!!! All of the groundwork was laid out for us by our forefathers!!! If we don't take an active seat in forming the laws, our country could come out of hand ....my best recommendation is to let everyone in your circle know how very important it is to retain our freedoms and use our tools for stabilizing this free country we are living n today!!! In world History we have seen mightier fall!!!
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This question can have many different opinions from different people. Freedom isn't the ability to do what ever one wanted to do, if it was, just picture a world that has no law...it would be total chaos...whoever didn't like you because of what you said could shoot you with no consequences taken, and I turn that would be living in fear and living in fear is NOT freedom. Even though we have the law we can still have freedom...for example....if the speed limit says 25, 45, 55 or 70 mph, as long as I didn't break the speed limit I have the freedom to drive where ever I wanted to, but if I break the speed limit and get stopped...then I no longer have the freedom to keep driving. Freedom is abiding by the rules and laws of life. Laws are not to prohibit people from doing things, but to protect people from harm. I don't know if your religious or not, but the 10 commandments were to protect us so to speak, not to hurt us. So, why get rid of something that doesn't hurt us. Like anything in life...there's a price for freedom....and it's not cheap!!! The price of the Freedom that has been given to me has caused many deaths of the solders that died in war so I can be Free...even free to the point of burning the flag (which I wouldn't do) that gave me the freedom that I have.
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this is why religion in government is a requirement.  governments are just people.  if the people are immoral, there is no reason for them to pursue justice; so you get a clinton and the whole demo party.  if the people are religious (i mean REALLY, not lip-serving, and/or moslems), they have a reason to pursue justice.  governmental workers will always have the power to do what they want.  if they serve god, they will serve justice.  if not, they wont.
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Guilty untill proven innocent is now the way of this country. It is sad too. Many individuals can't even get a fair trial because so many believe if you get arrested then that means you are guilty. \n\nHowever, we still have a much better legal system than many other countries. We still have rights when we are arrested or even before we are arrested that many others around the world do not have. There are still many places is the world where you can be taken out of your home without an arrest warrent or any proof you did anything wrong. \n\nI would much rather be in the country, even with the "innocent untill proven guilty" turned upside down to "guilty till proven innocent', than living elsewhere in the world.\n\nWe may not have a perfect legal system, but at least we still have many rights others do not have. Plus, there is no such thing as a perfect legal system. \n\nLegal systems do the best they can. Those upholding and/or working within them are people just like you and me. They are therefor not perfect and can and do make mistakes. Is that sad and awfull when a persons liberty is at stake? Yes it is. \n\nBut, I would still rather, by a large margin, to live here with the legal climate we currently have, than anywhere else.
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The role of the government is to provide structure and consistency. Looking at the Constitution (Preamble), there are five things that were the goal of the federal government: "establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty".\n\nLiberals as a party focus mainly on the "promote the general Welfare and secure the blessings of Liberty". Conservatives focus more on the "ensure domestic Tranquility [and] provide for the common Defense". But let's look at each of these five goals relative to morality.\n\nIf your goal is promoting welfare, then morality isn't much of an issue. People generally agree that feeding people is good, that murder/mayhem in the streets is bad, that paved roads and clean drinking water are good, that driving 90 in a school zone or residential neighborhood is bad, and so on.\n\nFor defense, again generally people agree that being safe is good, police (as a concept) are good, a strong military (for defense) is good, buildings blowing up is bad, etc. How much can be sacrificed to achieve these is a different issue (see liberty, below). So again, morality isn't a big factor in these issues.\n\nFor "establish Justice", it doesn't matter what your morality is, justice is good. What constitutes justice may vary, but that goes more to the other issues (liberty and tranquility, see below). So again, the concept of wanting justice by itself is not morality-dependent.\n\nWhich leaves us with the balance between ensuring domestic tranquility and ensuring the blessings of liberty. Here's where we get interesting. \n\nConservatives want tranquility, harmony, consistency, even at the expense of some liberty interests. Liberals want greater personal liberties, even if that means letting some criminals go free or not regulating certain behaviors, thus impacting tranquility. \n\nMorality is the set of beliefs that determine what is more important to us. Valuing liberty over tranquility means allowing other people to do things you don't approve of, while holding tranquility over liberty means that you want your values to apply to everyone, in order to avoid conflict.\n\nIs the right to choose who you want to marry (regardless of race or gender) more important than preserving a traditional historical opposite-sex same-race marriage? Until 1967, mixed-race marriages were illegal in many states (mostly conservative ones) because marriage was "by definition" a union between people of the same race. It was a moral issue, because their religions didn't favor mixed-race marriage. The US Supreme Court said that legal restrictions shouldn't be based on religions dogma, and that the right to marry who you want isn't subject to state controls. So far, that ruling only applies relative to race-based decisions, not gender-based decisions.\n\nIs it right for a woman to choose what happens inside her own body? The conservative view is that society as a whole mandates controls, and that based on religious beliefs since the embryo can become a person it should be treated as already being a person. Hence abortion is immoral. However, let's say you don't share the same religious perspective. Let's say you believe that it is the soul that makes someone human, and the soul doesn't show up until the fetus is capable of independent life (viability). In that case, based on your religious beliefs, terminating a pregnancy before the soul enters the body is not murder. How can you prove when the soul enters the body (conception, viability, birth)? You can't. It's a religious issue. So the US Supreme Court went with a medical (not religious) definition of life, and said that states cannot dictate religious definitions as a matter of law.\n\nAmerica is a republic. That means we collectively get together and elect people to make decisions for us. In a p
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Liberty is the essential heart of freedom.  Liberty means being able to choose one's own actions, without intrusion by government.  Every law that restricts your movement, your actions or your words is one that restricts your liberty.\n\nPrivacy is the notion that the government will not intrude upon actions that you intend to be private.  For instance, intercepting someones mail violates their privacy, as it is expected that only the recipient of the mail will read it.\n\nEvery infringement upon privacy can therefore potentially result in a infringement of liberty.  For example, a wiretap could lead to an arrest.\n\nPeople have a right to privacy, that is, they have a right to expect that the government will do as little as necessary to intrude upon their rights.  This right is expressly provided for in the bill of rights.  These rules govern due process.  This is why the police must obtain a warrant to do a search.
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What you're forgetting is that tomorrow it could be you.  If you were accused of a crime, should we not give you any rights, just throw you straight in jail?  If you're just referring to people who have been convicted, which rights do you mean?  They don't have many.  You do have to remember that unless they got the death penalty, they are going to return to society some day.  You don't prepare someone for that by putting them in a hole and telling they they're not a citizen anymore.
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I agree with what MLKing said BUT what I have realized as I get older, is that justice is not immediate.\n\nWhat I mean is that say you see an act of evil, a lightning bolt does not come down out of the sky and punish the evil doer immediately. Justice takes time and is a lot slower than the false gains of an evil act.\n\nI guess justice is a double test... one that test our faith and one that test our patience. Remember the old saying, 'What goes around comes around." That is true but you have to wait on it to come back around. lol
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Are going???????  ...Don't you really mean to say: Have already gone?    ...Indeed, we are looking at a very sad and dangerous heading for our hard-fought democracy.   Poor founding fathers have been shaking in their bones for some time now, I'm afraid.   I truly wonder: Have we really taken good enough care of the wonderful and immeasurable heritage they had left us?   It is much harder to recover our lost liberties than to lose them.   ...The worst crimes in this world have always been committed and justified in the name of the best and the holiest of intentions.
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When this country was founded, it was founded on liberal values: \n\n We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty  and the pursuit of Happiness. \n\nLiberalism is an ideology which holds liberty, one of the BIG 3 listed above, as the primary political value.\n\nThe gay marriage you speak about is a legal issue, not a religious or political one. Note the "all men are created equal" and the "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence. I believe that applies to this issue more than the word of God. If all men are truly created equal and are to be permitted to pursue their happiness, doesn't this include marriage?\n\nAs far as abortion and the death penalty, does it strike anyone as hypocritical that the Pro-Life crowd is also pro-death when it comes to capital punishment and war? \n\nOn drug use; this falls into the "pursuit of happiness" catagory also. The most addictive drug in use in the US today is legal - nicotine. It is estimated that currently 20-25% of the US prison population is there for minor drug offences. Major drug companies (also major campaign contributers) are fighting hard to keep marijuana, for one, illegal because thay can't patent a naturally occuring substance, thus, they can't make obsene profits from it.\n\nConservatives hurt American values by denying the unalienable Rights given in the Declaration of Independence.\n\nI expect some hateful responses to this, but remember, I have the right to freedom of speach, until they decide to take that one away, too...
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Justice is reserved for those who acquire power in central or state government. It is for them who have lot of money white or black... no body can touch them... even if you are a gangster you can rule the land from behind the bars and enjoy the services of jail personnel as your bodyguards... \n\nForget about justice for common people.
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we all exist in a state of freedom,\n\nsome governments come and restrict our freedoms,\n\nexample,  you already had the freedom to express your political dissent,\n\nin some countries in some times, governments would arrest and imprison those who disagreed with the soveriegn,\n\nso liberty is a concept that means a government which protects the citizens rights, natural rights, to freedom,
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We have already lost too much freedom. If you have no freedom then you are no more than a slave, and if you are a slave,you do not live a human life. Therefore, you are as good as dead anyway and might as well fight.
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The upholding of the rights of criminals is the paradox of justice. Perhaps if people just adhered to the lex talionis we should not have so many ciminals and terrorists now. The lex talionis says "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." But some philosophers injected the idea that "The law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind." \n\nSo here we are gripped by man's inability to see the distinction between real justice and justice denied.