Stephen F. Kislock, III – 4/12/09

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Obama undercuts constitutional rights; Stephen F. Kislock, III; Beaver County Times; April 12, 2009.

Most of Mr. Kislock’s 30+ letters over the last four years have been Republican-bashing exercises, though he sometimes goes after Democrats for his pet causes. Mr. Kislock has been a busy writer; this is his third letter in two weeks.

Below is a detailed critique of the letter.

“In regard to electronic surveillance, we are now monitored by the ‘change’ president as never before — and without any legal recourse.

“The change I voted for in November was not to change the Bill of Rights, but change it he did.

“We have a constitutional scholar, Barack Obama, as president. He is dismantling our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.”

[RWC] What makes Mr. Obama “a constitutional scholar?” I have degrees in engineering and management. Does that make me an engineering and management scholar?

“His Justice Department believes the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires probable cause for warrants, no longer applies.

“Our First Amendment right to petition the government for ‘redress of grievance(s)’ also no longer applies.

“The terms that we, the people, must learn are ‘state secret privilege’ and ‘sovereign immunity.’

“The definition of ‘sovereign immunity’ originally was based on the maxim ‘the king can do no wrong.’ Do we have a king?

“The last eight-plus years have seen our Constitution go from the greatest document ever written to a mere shell of its once greatness.

“The Posse Comitatus Act was to keep the U.S. military from doing nominally civilian law enforcement, but Army and Marine Corps personnel are manning civilian DUI checkpoints. Why?

“Are any amendments safe from our overreaching government?”

[RWC] Mr. Kislock just made a bunch of accusations without providing any concrete examples a reader could easily verify.