The fourth amendment to the United States constitution.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Writs of Assistance:

The Fourth Amendment was written directly in response to British general warrants (called Writs of Assistance), in which the Crown would grant general search powers to British law enforcement official. These officials could search virtually any home they liked, at any time they liked, for any reason they liked or for no reason at all. Since many of the founding fathers were smugglers, this was an especially unpopular concept in the colonies.

Remember also, this amendment is preceded by the third which was in regards to quartering soldiers, whether it was a time of war or not. In effect, in the early colonial times, soldiers could commander your resources, and stay until they depleted your harvest, and then move on.

The fourth amendment has been challenged by both sides of the law many times. The Supreme COurt has had to specifically define them under every kind of legal and illegal challenge. It has been easier to define the application of the fourth amendment on a case by case basis. If you are a drug smuggler, an illegal alien, or just an average Joe this amendment is there to protect certain rights, It defines what is necessary to obtain a legal search warrant, and every branch of the government and citizenry must comply. In fact, even if proven guilty of the crime, you must be careful how you obtain the evidence. Many vital pieces of criminal behaviors were thrown out, not because they were believed to be untrue, but that they were poisoned fruits obtained by illegal means.

Ok i am not becoming an historian, these things i found in root to other things i was googling. (See yesterdays blog.)Although at times it is probably very frustrating to the judicial branch, the law must be blind regarding persons. That is why sheis so often portrayed with a blindfold. One law for all. When Americans open this document for themselves, I believe real needed changes will come to AMerica.

We were never meant to be puppets.We have slipped back into taxation without true representation,and we may need to throw some more tea in Boston harbor. The Constitution was and is a beautiful document. Read it for yourself.

Blessings

Libyan Legacy

I am sure there are many people in the world who wish their nation could have a second chance.My Father began ranting about going to Washington and cleaning house way back in the 1970s. I just assumed he was a kook, but I was not aware till now what a constitutional scholar he was. The second amendment was created to preserve a militia, and if you are a good citizen, you are given the task of abolishing the government when it is out of control. The ancients set it up with checks and balances, but they still allowed room for a situation they could not predict. They had to equip a new nation with a system of government that would outlive them. They had to define Patriotism.
Shift to Libya, or Egypt or whichever country is beginning with a new start. Everyone is talking about a power vacuum, and fearing retribution and retaliation. I am sure the loyalists in America feared reprisals as well. Families divide in civil type wars like this. DO they want to become like Afghanistan? do they want the nations to change, but the war to be their legacy?
Many evil things are done in a war. Simply removing Ghaddafi is not enough. His whole tribe has had power for so long, and the people they incarcerated with fear and reprisals may want revenge. The number one thing they need to do is remember without food and clean water there will be no one to enjoy this new found freedom. Being free to speak your mind is only helpful if you have something to say, and live long enough to say it.
Recognizing the new government is not enough. Releasing their funds stolen under the outgoing regime is not enough. They need a constitutional convention. They do not need an oral one, they need something written down they can refer to. It also must have teeth to back the words up. Those words will be more important than even the greatest citizen. They will need to be fair to every citizen and not have regard for political, social, or religious bias, and it must apply equally to men and women and all who live within its borders.
This will be interesting to watch. A new nation will be born. They may even change the name of Libya. Good luck to the people who gain power. That is a sacred trust, and the world is watching. China must be quaking in their sandals to see freedom spreading where oppression has had decades of strongholds. 
There is an old Chinese saying "may you live in interesting times." We sure do.
Blessings

Here comes the pain again

I should have suspected something Thursday. I thought I was just tired from doing my chores around here. To do three blogs meant I was not getting up and moving around as much as I need to to not be stiff. Friday my regular transport driver was on holiday and I stood outside an hour before I figured out no one was coming. You should have seen the size of my knee after that.
By nine I finally arrived at the hospital,(don't ask), and our session begins at eight am. SO i only got three and a half hours of a four hour session, because at that point i was already not wanting to even be there.
Then we get done and sit there waiting for the transport driver who was too lazy to get out of his car and let us know he was sitting there. I guess he gets paid if we are in the car or not. My knee could not bend properly to get into the back seat of his car, and the jerk could not help me, although it was obvious to everyone at this point the knee was damaged again. Then we finally drop Cathy off and get to my house, and he sits there again as I struggle to get out of his car. The other patient after me has a lot of stairs to her house and she is a heart patient as well, so I am afraid to know how she got into her home.
It is just disrespectful. I am always dressed, and downstairs waiting for me ride when Jim goes to work. I figure it saves time for the driver and other patients not to have to ring me to come down when they arrive. From now on till the regular guy is back,(bless him) I will wait in my apartment and spare my knee.
I am still so angry and my knee is still aggravated, so for those of you, like Alison, who asked why no blog, I was afraid of what i might say if i wrote this yesterday. I know i sound angry, but i counted to ten , then 100, then 1000.
Believe it or not, this is me calmed down a bit. You have to laugh or you would cry.
Blessings

blog number 3 today

Just listened to Martina McBrides' Loves the only house, and it reminded me of my old (errr former) WAL*MART jobs. We had one policy, if you steal we will parade you through the store with the cops and shame you and prosecute you. No exceptions. Ever!
Well as a bleeding heart liberal crusader i went to the manager to complain."What if they need diapers or their kids are hungry? will going to jail help them?" My very patient manager Mark took me out to the warehouse. In it were containers of diaper packs that got spoilt in transit, dog food, and some house hold items not good enough to sell. Then he sat me down and said, if anyone ever comes to you and says they are so desperate they are tempted to steal, send then to me. I can walk around my store here and from our associates pockets get about $20 bucks without even trying. But just don't steal from me. I do not know where Mark is today but he ran the Cortland Walmart with dignity.
Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world. If you need it, ask. How can people help if they don't know. Let go of your pride, you would do it for others if you had it. One day the shoe will be on the other foot. What goes around indeed comes back in crazy ways. I have a friend who is teaching me forgiveness. Her daughter -in-law tried to burn the house down with the family including her baby in it. If some fireman had not risked their lives i shudder to think. And i get mad when people call me names. Sticks and stones indeed. You can be a hero to someone too. Help a child struggling in school, give an older person with no car a ride to the store. DO something, cause one day you will be that old lady. My grandma used to say she didnt ask for rides cause people knew she didnt have a car. Foolish, cutting her nose to spite her face.
Loves' the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.
Bless you thisis my last blog today i promise. I am bushed.
I bet you are too.
Blessings till tomorrow

Melodies for disasters--stolen from FB

The Name Game: Memos to Gaddafi..and other Dictators!

• Chesney Hawkes- I am the One and Only
• Rolling Stones- Gaddafi My Cloud
• Thin Lizzy- STALIN Love with You
• IDI and the Hot Rods
• AMIN the Mood for Love
• Rainbow- TSARgazer
• Free- All Right MAO
• Pass IL DUCE on de left hand side- Musical (Hitler) Youth
• Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills
• HerMANN-OWAR Goering- Heil and Kill
• AC/DC- KIM IL JONG way to the Top (if you wanna rock and roll)
• BLACHSHIRT Cherry
• Aerosmith- PERM-anent Vacation
• Papa Doc Duvalier don't preach- Mad-Dogga
• Black Sabbath- Iron Man
• Pat Benatar- Hitler with your Best Shot
• Led Zeppelin- Gallow's POL POT
• AC/DC- Heatseeker
• Billy Rankin- BABY DOC Back
• The Skids- Into DUVALIER
• Rory Gallagher- Bad Perm-eh?
• Where do the Guilty Go- FRANCO Miller
• NoRiegarets- Edith Piaf
• Metallica- Seek & Destroy
• Sweet Child O' Mein Kampf
• HEAD Zeppelin- FRIZZical Grafitti
• Nickelback- BARNET to the Ground
• RATM- Bullet in the Head
• Joey Tempest- Fuehrer from the Truth
• Rush- PERM-anent Waves
• Doors- Light My Fuehrer
• Did You Eva? by FRANCO Sinatra and Bing HITLER Crosby
• AC/DC- Shoot to Thrill
• The Cult- Fuehrer Woman
• Metallica- Enter Saddam
• Muddy Waters- Hoochie Ho Chi Minh
• SAHB- Baghdad Tea Party
• My Chemical (weapons) Romance- I'm not Okay
• Elton John- Sandals in the Bin (Laden)
• Making your mind up- Bucks FRIZZ
• I just died in your arms tonight- Cutting Khruschev
• AC/DC- Mad-Dog Eat Dog
• Lenin Cohen- The Butcher
• It Bites- Call-LENIN All the Heroes
• Queen- Another One Bites the Dust
• The Animals- We Gotta Get Outta this Palace!
• SAHB- I Never Did Nothin..Ah Wis Framed!
• Abba- Fernando Marcos
• Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand Marcos
• AC/DC- Highway to Hellmand
• Clash- Rock the Casbah
• Sweet Child O' (Land) Mine
• Genesis- Despot the Pigeon
• AC/DC- Hells Goebbels
• Heaven and Hell- Mob Rules
• Queen- FATWA Bottomed Girls
• Stuck in the Middle (East) With You
• The Cult- She Sells (UN) Sanctions
• David Bowie- Aladdin Saddam Hussein
• RHCP- The (mis)Adventures of Poll Tax Maggie
• The Who- Won't Get Fuel Again
• Steel Panzer- Death to All but Camels
• Julie Andrews- Adolf-Weisse
• Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By MAO
• Lovin' A Mad Dictator – Aerosmith
• Rock n Roll Saddamnation
• U2 -Stone me Birch me shoot me kill me
• Jimi Hendrix - Castros Made Of Sand
• Pol Potta Love
• Dave Tripoli Roth - Shoot 'em and smile
• Everyday I love you HESS and HESS
• Hitler baby one more time
• Queen- Amin Love With My Czar
• Amin The Mood For Dancing - The Nolans
• Lynyrd Skynyrd- Sweet Home Ayatolla

Zombies again

I do not know how your mind works, but I go off on tangents. My better half says i block him, but my mind is so active i am easily bored by the mundane. I truly try to hear everyone, but sometimes i think i know what they are going to say to me, so I go back to my lists of chores in my head. Maybe that is selfish, but that is how my mind works. I took a hit in my pride for bringing up Zombies (i know two people that got a job with Brad), and then turning the topic to religion.
I told them to deal with it, but i dealt with it too. Was I scheming? nah i  only have 4 followers, and the rest of you i do not know who you are and i assume it changes often. I can't guarantee that any of my kids give me a chance.I just tell my little stories and move on. Zombies fascinates me because i think most people are zombies at one time in their life or another. I know new parents are, they neither eat, shower, or sleep for many weeks. 
But the real zombies are the chronically ill who are not dying, per se, but have to live with a body that becomes a stranger to them. Slowly I am becoming someone who can't move very well. I used to have a Nova and everyone said i could go anywhere in 15 minutes because everything i owned fit in my car. Now i must be driven, I cannot work, and i walk around here half-dead waiting for my hubby to return. Some days it hurts to breathe, some days it hurts to think. Some days i think i am the old Brenda again and tear into my chores. My only sense of worth now comes from JIm noticing if i were able to do anything or not today. Poor JIm is tired sometimes and misses something,and I cry and cry. I do not have friends, I take hostages. If you come for a wee visit to cheer me up , i wont let you go, i talk and talk and talk. I think some people are afraid to return. I don't blame them.
Loud large crowds frighten me, and I sit outside at the club, as that buffers some of the noise. I make a lot of noise, but i can't tolerate others doing it. The Zombie rules. The one I pity most is my family because no one realizes it is harder to be the carer than the cared for. I am sure the boys think our bickering is ugly and they want real love in their lives. We bicker to let off steam, it is never about what we are bickering about.JIm has no one to say, sometimes i am so tired and she has an accident and I have to step in. If i fall he has to get me in the ambulance because i will fight it. He has to listen to me beg for a drink when he knows i asked him to restrict my fluids. He has to stand on his head to get me to eat, because i am diabetic and must eat although most of the time i do not wish to. He does most of the shopping now, all of the driving, and the minute he gets in the door I descend upon him for news of the world. Just once i bet he wishes he could have a half hour to himself to chill, then he could start in taking care of things again.
SO, if you are tempted to support someone, give Jim an atta boy, because no one sees the pain of the carer. He must respond when i am in trouble even if ten minutes before we were fighting and i was giving him the silent treatment.
This is almost the time for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I became a man hating Zombie then too, and that time i do not wish to remember, in fact i am a little afraid of what I might do on that day. If I only can remember that was the beginning of my new life, which culminated with me in Scotland with the love of my life, I can get a new perspective, it is time to walk out of the pain, and into the light. Jims love is more real than the silly stuff my kids believe in and think they are in love. It is always being there even when you are needed but resented. It is long nights of worry sleeping next to someone who cant breathe,and worst of all, it is when the one you love most makes you feel like the enemy. It is smiling when you come home to no dinner and someone in bed again. Again , and again.
Jim will be put out that i mentioned him in my blog again. But these things are true, and he can't say them without looking insensitive. He has to be "the man" whilst i get to cry and stamp my feet and moan. And he never asks for sympathy, just a little understanding, before he turns into a zombie too.
Love you baby.
Blessings

divorce woes

OK first of all September 4th makes 10 years since the divorce came through. I received my copy September 10, guess what the next day was? Yup. IN the past year we have made great strides and were getting a sense of closure. I was on FB yesterday trying to think of how to word a blog on Libya and guess who hails me? Yes again.
Forgetting my brains at the door I tell him i do not have time to talk. I keep telling him i am going to sign off. He seems a bit desperate so we talk about generic things like his family. 
Then to my surprise I find the person i have been talking to is wife number 3. Having never met me, she analyzes my whole life. Whatever she has been told, even I can see I am a monster. SO now I am tryig to find a way to block a friend i added to FB. What I can't believe is how much leftover anger I still have. SO much for my religion, and i finally woke up to yet another message from a woman who calls herself Dolly. There is so much i want to say, so many points I could refute, but who is she? She is dining on my leftovers. He will reveal in time why she is wife number 3, and no help is needed from me.
So I am not as grown up as I thought. I guess it was a mistake to look for closure. I guess it was a mistake to not believe he meant to divorce me, and it wasn't just his parents. Maya or someone wise said, if a man tells you who he is, believe him. That will have to do for closure, or else i am asking for this hassle. I have to give up the effort to prove i was right to settle for i got out alive. And fairly sane in my opinion.
Frustrated with men but safe.
Blessings.