{"id":1901,"date":"2010-06-28T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2010-06-28T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:41:06","slug":"ron-paul-celebrates-justice-departments-140th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/ron-paul-celebrates-justice-departments-140th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Celebrates Justice Department’s 140th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s almost always a shock when truth surfaces in the Congressional Record<\/strong>. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Madam Speaker, the House of Representatives recently considered H. Res. 1422, honoring the 140th anniversary of the Department of Justice. I voted against this resolution because of the Justice Department\u2019s history of violating individual rights.<\/p>\n

It is the Justice Department that leads the ongoing violations of the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments in the name of the \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d It is Justice Department agents who perform warrantless wiretaps and \u201csneak-and-peak\u201d searches under the misnamed PATRIOT Act. It is the Justice Department that prosecutes American citizens for violating unconstitutional federal regulations even in cases where no reasonable person could have known their actions violated federal law.<\/p>\n

Some like to pretend that the Justice Department\u2019s assault on liberties is a modern phenomenon, or that abuses of liberties are only carried out by one political party. However, history shows that the unconstitutional usurpations of power and abuse of rights goes back at least almost a hundred years to the \u201cProgressive\u201d era and that Justice Departments of both parties have disregard the Constitution and violated individual liberties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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