Rights for the accused protect all people. Comments anyone?

Question

The reason why the U.S. Founding Fathers chose to write constitutional protections and rights into the Bill of Rights is to protect all people from an over-powering and over-reaching government. If it were not for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments, a mere accusation against a person would become a conviction.

I am of the opinion that I would rather see a guilty man go free if the government has not proven its case than to see an innocent man unfairly accused, prosecuted, and sentenced by a government with too much power.

And, yes, I am been victimzed by criminals and none of them have ever been sent to jail for their crime against me.

I still feel very strongly that the government needs to be reined in, because once people are under the yoke of an all-powerful government, it is virtually impossible to throw it off without extreme bloodshed or civil war.

Answer 1

I agree. The government has gotten too big and intrusive. They have manipulated many into thinking that questioning the government is "unamerican."

Taking away the right of habeus corpus goes against centuries of democratic law. The absolute worst argument in support of removing our privacy rights is that if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't care. This makes no sense. Many innocent conversations and behaviors can be taken out of context and subhect an innocent person to a trial. Anyone that has ever been falsely accused of a crime can tell you how hard it is to prove that you are innocent.

Hopefully, we are going to see a backlash against this and a return of the power to the people.

Answer 2

is merely too complicated for you? The Republican as quickly as replaced into the party of liberals and the Democrats have been mostly the conservatives. as an occasion, George Wallace replaced right into a Democrat, yet he replaced into no longer a liberal. Make sense to you presently?

Answer 3

I agree with you 100%. It is up to all of us to make sure the government follows the constitution.