God or government?

The previous post shows what happens when we substitute genetics for God as the foundation of our individual worth. In the same way, it's dangerous to substitute government for God as the foundation of our liberty and rights. Unlike the one who is the same "yesterday, today and forever," what government grants, it can take away.

The question is whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual right to "keep and bear arms." If the answer is yes, as a federal appeals court held in March, the justices must decide what such an interpretation means for a statute that bars all possession of handguns and that requires any other guns in the home to be disassembled or secured by trigger locks.

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As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy...

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.

If the foundations have crumbled, the structure can't last much longer.