Journal Entry #2 (Have To Remember)
While I stand here on the tarmac, something comes to mind. It is from Robert Jackson. It is something I have kept stored in my comlink. Well, specifically two things:The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. [Opinion for the Court in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. [Opinion for the Court in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]
I have to hold onto this.
