A comment I left in nancylebov's journal, about spying on foreigners

[xiphias]

The problem is that we have an entire government which is unfamiliar with the principles upon which that government was founded

Comments

[paper_crystals]

I thought we had this understanding all this time that the government was there to protect people against the heathenous gays marrying. And since they failed at that then bending a few other laws shouldn't really matter right?

/sarcasm

[rmjwell]

The US government is an expression of the power and will of the citizenry of the United States.

More later....

power and will of the citizenry...

[rmjwell]

Well, yes. It was this fear that caused the delay in getting the constitution approved. Given this situation "the mob" was all powerful. The solution was the bill of rights, to limit the power of the majority, as exercised through the elected representatives, from persecuting, oppressing, and generally being nasty to the law abiding minority. And even then it was a hard sell.
Duzzy (pere du xiphias)