Our founders didn't specifically outlaw torture and brutal executions because they aren't effective deterents to criminal behavior. They forbade 'em because they didn't want their country to grow up to be cruel and despotic, capable of intimidating even its citizens into a state of unquestioning obedience.
It's disgusting behavior, beneath the dignity of us and our heritage.
That's all. It's uncivilized.
The Constitution was also set up to protect the individual from blocs. The notion that a few wealthy developers with more access to political appointments and sharing a steam room at the club with the governor or mayor can vote to take your ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, hand it at charity prices to a real estate company, and put a friggin' mall on it is atrocious.
Two groups, the oil companies and the construction/development companies are thriving in this stagnant economy, and they should have to go out and buy their own raw materials. The wierdo-socialist government is propping up these companies, not because they're weak, but because they're too fat to stand up.
A billion dollars for the oil companies to go find oil in the 'energy bill'. Eminent Domain as a mechanism for companies to get tasty tax parcels at bargain prices. It's almost as bad as prividing the Republican State of Alaska with $3,000,000 to produce a film about road building in Alaska. But not disgusting, like officially standing on the principle that the Geneva Conventions against torture are 'Quaint'. It's not quaint, it's a founding principle of our Republic.
What is our country coming to?
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