At 10:24 AM 06/17/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >Given this degradation of the Bill of Rights, it would be pretty cool to >put stickers on bus seats, or in bus-stops, reminding people --whether >citizens or not, and regardless of their albedo-- of their rights.
It would, and it'd be nice and patriotic if Greyhound did it :-) >Of course, this would be considered vandalism. >Writing the Bill of Rights was treason at the time, of course. No it wasn't - the Bill of Rights was written during the period that the Constitution was being adopted, unlike the Declaration of Independence, which was written during British rule. You might argue that the Constitution itself was treason against the United States confederation or individual state governments (under the then-current Articles of Confederation), and there were lots of people who thought it was a Bad Idea, but I don't think it was widely considered to be treason.
