Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Toward Amending the Constitution with pinpoint accuracy, cont.

Recently we had a short discussion here concerning Lawrence Auster's amendment outline aimed at returning to some semblance of Constitutional Government...

John Savage raised a concern, in our original conversation on the matter, with the wisdom of clarifying the intent of the fourteenth amendment, specifically the incorportation doctrine which supposedly, though it's an illegitimate doctrine, establishes federal oversight regarding the protections of the first amendment, as well as those of the whole of the bill of rights.

John's concern carries over to a BNWW entry he put up while I was away. In this case he cites a New York Times story wherein the internet provider, Verizon, attempted to limit the free speech of a certain faction of its subscribers, namely, pro-abortionists. Apparently John's fear is that without federal oversight of private companies such as Verizon regarding free speech issues, then there is no ultimate and final arbiter empowered to guard and protect against arbitrary infringements on those rights.

I would simply ask John, under incorporation, who is to protect against arbitrary infringements of our first amendment priveleges from the central government?

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