Assault on the Ninth Amendment

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. - The Bill of Rights

This Ninth Amendment states that the list of rights in the Constitution will not be used to deny any individual of another right. Yet, all levels of government have passed laws which restrict or prohibit many of the things that are protected by the Bill of Rights.

For example, many cities have passed unconstitutional ordinances or legislation that restrict or prohibit the assembly of a large group of people for any purpose, violating the First Amendment right of the people peaceably to assemble. Free speech zones, areas set aside in public places for political activists to exercise their right of free speech, have been used at a variety of political gatherings while denying First Amendment rights outside the zones.

Olympia Washington lawyer Lagrand Jones was arrested on charges of trespassing and obstructing a police officer when he refused to give the officer his ID. Jones asserts it’s not a crime to refuse to provide identification to police. Jones told the Tacoma News Tribune, “I don’t have to show my papers on demand. I don’t live in that kind of world.” Regardless of what some court may hold, It IS NOT TRUE that a demand for papers, persons, or effects can be constitutional “if a state law allows it”. The 4th amendment prohibts that activity by the government, and the 9th amendment asserts that the States do NOT have that right or privilege.

The Supreme Court in its Roe vs. Wade decision denies the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of millions of babies killed in their mothers wombs every year?

The rights of one individual now exceed that of another. The right of freedom of speech in the name of "verbal sexual harassment" (not physical harassment) is one example.

Another example is the rights of the criminal in todays judicial system which often exceed the rights of the victim and society.

The courts have denied Christianity an equal place in public schools allowing the teaching of Atheism and other religons. It is illegal to invite a priest or any other individual representing any Christian religion to speak in public schools; but it is legal to invite a practicing witch to speak on the doctrines of the occult. It is illegal to mention God in any school or government institution, but it legal to teach and discuss doctrines of the occult. In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled that even the presence of the Ten Commandments in a public school was unconstitutional. The reason being: "If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments; this is not a permissible objective."

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