Rethinking the Third Amendment

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Rethinking the Third Amendment
-Karen Kwiatkowski


Reading LewRockwell.com this past weekend, it occurs to me, as it did to millions of others, that it all boils down to three related problems: 1) U.S. government spending won't stop and is promising national bankruptcy and sustaining global war; 2) U.S. government growth is the nemesis of American individual and economic liberty, and may even have it in a death grip, and; 3) Government propaganda at home and abroad facilitates and obfuscates problems one and two.

Glenn Greenwald explains the Cass Sunstein/Katie Halsey mentality of "what is to be done." Bad and evil masculine lies of state are to be avoided and condemned, but good, well-intentioned feminine lies of state should receive every investment. The New York Times differentiates Obama-lie from Bush-lie. Yet as Greenwald respectfully points out, they're exactly the same.

Those who appreciate the tattered Constitution worry a bit. For years, we have seen Salon's crisp pages examine and expose the ongoing war on the First Amendment, while the liberty-lovin' side of the tracks rails at the loss of the Second. Sunstein rises and converges as antihero of both the 1st and the 2nd amendments, but there are many others preaching from the same Unholy Writ of State.

The constitution has suffered resculpting in the hands those who prefer the State over all. In addition to Amendments 1 and 2, and all that Yoo, one may find no end of debate about the fundamental roles, intent and destiny of amendments 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in an age where the United States incarcerates and harasses more of it own citizens than any other country. And in response to concerns over 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 – we find renewed interest in Amendments 9 and 10 – which seek to preserve the concept of power to the 99.9% of the people not ensconced in our distant capital.

After reading Pat Buchanan's latest, it seems that the amalgamated problem – as pointed out by Greenwald and the Gruber Affair, is simply a question of payroll. Which brings us to the third Amendment.

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski242.html