Last Friday was Constitution Day, a document foreign to Washington royalty. Over the years, well-meaning judges, and even more who weren't, contorted the First Amendment in ways never dreamed nor intended. As James Madison wrote it, in part: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech…" As you know, religion's freedoms have been court-distorted, inventing a total-separation fantasy, while ever-eager to pamper and advance any non-Judeo-Christian challenge.
That travesty aside, it's freedom of speech that's been purposely rolled-out like pizza-dough, stretched far thinner than any Founder's intent. As such, finite speech-protection has become, instead, infinite. Court-morphed into the far broader self-expression protection, unless you're a Christian, Jew or conservative, then it doesn't. Though broadened, ironically at times, even good-old speech, itself, eludes protection, as with today's repressive, PC-driven campus "speech codes." So, let's assume you witness an obscene tax-payer-funded art form. Say hello to protected-expression. Or those disgusting military funeral protesters. Or you're a self-centered, ingrate-jerk who defaces or burns an American flag. All protected expression. Then there's "stolen valor," when a person wears military garb, adorned with unearned tabs and medals, making false claims. Recent example: an obese, phony Green Beret confirmed his fraud by wearing a black beret! Wildly interpreting our now-spandex First Amendment, a judge has just ruled that being a military imposter is protected. In all things, then, it's self above nation, proclaim the elite. Those empty suits seem to favor anything, but our Constitution (as intended), limited-government, fiscal-prudence, free enterprise, honesty, and common sense. Minus that baggage, they're good.
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