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> We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again No. You can't roll back a human right. If you did it wouldn't be a valid law and people w
by EdHominem 11y ago
> We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again
No. You can't roll back a human right. If you did it wouldn't be a valid law and people would be justified in armed resistance to it.
> We could abolish the EPA, or the IRS, or the NSA. We don't because these have enough supporters who value what they do, today.
Well, in the case of the NSA it's more because we suspect they'd commit treason and bring down the country if we tried.
(ie, pull out an old tape of Obama and frame him with something, etc.)
> Well, welcome to life in a democracy. Nothing is ever settled with finality because there are plenty of ways for future generations to change the laws we cherish today--for good or ill.
Yes, things can always be screwed up. But it should be illegal for a government worker (ie FBI) to specifically try to undermine existing decisions by, for instance, lying in court, or paying for propaganda they know to be untrue. Both things we know they do.