An Inconvenient 4th

Hello Everyone. Recently there has been some hijinks and controversy over the ousting of suspected/alleged gang members from the US. On the surface of things, I support the very thing that was done, but it was done quite wrongly and that is the problem.

The United States Constitution outlined our form of government in such a manner that things could – and could not! – be changed as we grew. Chief among these unchangeable is that there are three branches of the government: The Legislative, the Judicial, the Executive, and those branches are created so that no one branch could run unchecked. The sad truth is that no form of government can withstand the greed and avarice of powerful men and women, as has been made quite clear all too often.

Under the very tired and troubled Aliens Enemies Act the drumpf admin. chose to deport suspected ~ alleged Venezuelan gang members prior to the normal hearings and those very pesky things that the Legislative branch seems to like to throw around. This Aliens Enemies Act was last used to imprison Japanese Americans because the Nation of Japan attacked the United States 80+ years ago.

But, so what, right? I mean, they aren’t even citizens, and it would appear that they are gang members breaking the law. Why shouldn’t they be deported?

Ok, fair question. But, who says they are gang members? Who says they are breaking the law? For that matter, are we even sure they are not citizens? I mean, do you carry around your citizenship papers everyday?

The very people who will go to extremes to demand their 2nd Amendment rights seem to lose focus after #2. They don’t mind the violations of the 4th Amendment – until it happens to them. Until they need it. Until someone takes their rights. And it is the very presence of the 4th’s Due Process that gave us the idea that we are a land of laws and rights that can’t be violated at the whim of the powers that be.

There are those who voted this man in who cheer these violations of due process, but they are the same who voted in a man who supported an insurrection, who then pardoned people who broke into the house of government and vandalized, stole, disrupted, threatened, assaulted, brandished weapons and sought to kill the Vice President.

The same man who stole government secrets and papers, perhaps gave them to our enemies, who was convicted of felonies himself, or at least his administration while he naps and plays golf, is telling you that not only do these people not need a 4th Amendment protection, but that the Judge who demands those protections is to be removed. Perhaps they will see their error when he comes for them?