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DESCRIPTION:4th Amendment: Rest in Peace, by Cindy Sheehan\n\n4th Amendment\nb. 
 December 15, 1791\nd. June 20, 2008\n\nThe 4th Amendment to the US 
 constitution is just one more thing that has been murdered since bloody 
 Emperor George took office in 2001: Over 4000 US soldiers in Iraq and 
 Afghanistan; over one million Iraqis and Afghanis and many of our brothers 
 and sisters in this country who have been either killed or devastated by 
 catastrophic climate change and other violence that has become 
 rampant.\n\nAmong the things that have been murdered in George's quest to 
 be the emperor of a vast US corporate-military empire are many aspects of 
 our constitution.\n\nThe First Amendment has been obliterated with "free 
 speech" zones; the arrests of thousands of activists trying to express 
 their freedom of speech; the destruction of the "freedom of the press" 
 clause began during the Reagan years and it's untimely demise was hastened 
 during the Clinton regime; the US technically has no state religion, but 
 Christianity has been informally shoved down our throats with the Emperor 
 getting revelations from his demented God that tells him to go on crusades 
 against Muslim countries.\n\n"Torture memos" written by law professors; 
 torture camps; and extreme rendition slaughtered the 8th Amendment that 
 prohibits "cruel and unusual" punishment. The Military Commission and 
 Patriot Acts dealt the deathblows to the 8th Amendment.\n\nWhen Congress 
 gave Emperor George the power to invade sovereign countries without a 
 declaration of war from Congress---the Emperor's loyal and obedient 
 servants destroyed two clauses of the Constitution: the Supremacy Clause 
 (Art. VI, Clause 2) which states the treaties are the "Supreme" law of the 
 land and the enumerated power of Congress to "declare war" (Art. I, Section 
 8).\n\nArt. II, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to 
 remove a criminal administration, but the Queen of the Imperial rubber 
 stamp arm of the empire, Nancy Pelosi, took that clause "Off the table." 
 When I hear that phrase, I envision a long table with lords and ladies 
 pigging out on a banquet while the peasants starve because justice is not 
 on that table and economic equality is out of the question.\n\nNow, with 
 the new law granting immunity to telecom companies and granting the federal 
 government wide discretionary powers in spying on our communications (which 
 has become far simpler in this electronic day and age), the Imperial rubber 
 stamp arm of the federal government has brutally murdered another of our 
 precious rights: the 4th Amendment which states: "The right of the people 
 to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against 
 unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants 
 shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and 
 particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things 
 to be seized."\n\nThe centuries old right of habeas corpus which protected 
 us from arbitrary state action through unlawful detention was also 
 destroyed, so the US has returned to pre-Magna Carta "jurisprudence" and 
 not one of us is safe from the arbitrary crimes of the police-empire that 
 has replaced our representative republic.\n\nEven thought the 4th Amendment 
 was 217 years old, it died a violent and untimely death.\n\nI am calling 
 for a memorial service for the 4th Amendment on Tuesday, June 24th. We in 
 San Francisco will be gathering at City Hall at 3pm and having a solemn 
 funeral procession to the Federal building at 3:30 pm. We will then 
 eulogize the 4th Amendment and give it a proper send off. It served us 
 well. Many of our brothers and sisters have never felt its presence, 
 though, even though they have been working for civil rights for 
 generations.\n\nWear black. We are a nation in mourning for our rule of 
 law.\n\nIf you can't join us in San Francisco, please organize a memorial 
 service of your own.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/22/18510269.php
SUMMARY:Memorial Service for the 4th Amendment
LOCATION:Meet at San Francisco City Hall at 3pm. Solemn funeral procession to the 
 Federal Building at 3:30 pm.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/22/18510269.php
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