These aren’t the best of times. These are the worst of times. A simple allegation can oh-so-quickly turn into a cause to toss out the Constitution. This is what happens when a nation formed on a model of God first, government subservient, abandons that premise and flips the structure of power.
the offices of the local newspaper, and also a journalist’s home, and confiscated computers, cellphones, notebooks and other items supposedly related to a story written about a local business owner, Kari Newell, that included mention of her less-than-perfect driving record. The raid came, too, as the newspaper was investigating Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s previous work with the Kansas City Police Department.
. “The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 broadly prohibits law enforcement officials from searching for or seizing information from reporters.
When the people who make up the system become rotten and corrupt, the systems themselves become rotten and corrupt; and when the systems themselves become rotten and corrupt, a dismayed public loses faith in the systems — which opens the door for the rotten and corrupt to make false promises to clean up the system. They lie; they can’t clean the system they made rotten; truthfully, they don’t want to clean the system because the corruption works in their favor.
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