Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Raised by bumper-stickers II

I was passing a vehicle last week that had about a half-dozen stickers on the back, and these two were adjacent:
W (in circle with backslash) Let's not elect him this time either.

Study our constitution... to see what they're taking away.
Call me a skeptic, but I just didn't think the sticker-bearer (despite the exhortation) had actually been reading the Constitution. Because if he had, he might have stumbled upon mention of the Electoral College (Article 2, Section 1 and the 12th Amendment), which rather puts the kibosh on the first sticker.

But maybe Mr. Sticker wasn't thinking about that. Maybe he was worried about the precious right of foreign killers to be free from court-ordered roving wiretaps while they visit our country, on the grounds that it's unconscionable to treat terrorists like mafiosi. Yes, that was a legal privilege that got taken away by the Congress and the President in 2001. And, strangely or not, it just doesn't bother me.

Or maybe I'm just missing the point entirely. It's impossible to know -- them stickers are so darned vague sometimes.  Better sticker, seen yesterday:  "Support your right to arm bears."  Must be the Second-and-a-Half Amendment.

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