Koumei at [unixtime wrote:1194102309[/unixtime]] Which one is which, again?
The first says they can't make a Church of America, or muffle speech, and you can bitch to the government.
The second amendment says the people's right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The eighth says no cruel and unusual punishment.
The tenth says unenumerated powers belong to the states or to the people. The Feds can't do fuck-all.
In practice, of course, the 2nd is infringed all the time, and the 10th is already in the circular file. Everytime the radio plays Justin Timberlake, I get kicked right in the 8th, and the goddamn 9th circuit court is always donkey punching one amendment or another.
Thinking about this (or 4chan) for too long sends my libertarian heart into a spiral of rage, so I try to avoid these topics as best I can.
And the board is filled with Socialists and Commies? Woah. Being a foreigner (to America), I guess that'd make me one of the Communists, right?
Probably not. I get the impression that Not-America is run by either benign socialism or brutal autocracy, depending on if it's a third world nation or not.
Funny you mention it, though. I was going to the store to pick up a blazer to conceal my armor and service pistol and I thought, "I should've added 'foreign national' to my list of Denziens."