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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1104394" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>[h=2]<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/08/symbolism-fail-john-brennan-took-oath-on-constitution-with-no-bill-of-rights/" target="_blank">Symbolism Fail: John Brennan Took Oath On Constitution With No Bill Of Rights…</a>[/h]<img src="http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/8539033959_54d56e977b_o-550x368.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/brennan-takes-oath-constitution-without-bill-rights-205110620.html" target="_blank">Yahoo! News</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America’s top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“There’s one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.” [...]</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789. But <a href="http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/03/08/john-brennan-sworn-in-as-cia-director-using-constitution-lacking-bill-of-rights/" target="_blank">troublemaking blogger Marcy Wheeler points out</a> that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights, which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states. (Caution: Marcy’s post has some strong language.)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">That means: No freedom of speech and of the press, no right to bear arms, no Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and no right to a jury trial.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">How … symbolic?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1104394, member: 1246"] [h=2][URL="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/08/symbolism-fail-john-brennan-took-oath-on-constitution-with-no-bill-of-rights/"]Symbolism Fail: John Brennan Took Oath On Constitution With No Bill Of Rights…[/URL][/h][IMG]http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/8539033959_54d56e977b_o-550x368.jpg[/IMG] Via [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/brennan-takes-oath-constitution-without-bill-rights-205110620.html"]Yahoo! News[/URL]: [INDENT]Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted. Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America’s top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony. “There’s one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.” [...] The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789. But [URL="http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/03/08/john-brennan-sworn-in-as-cia-director-using-constitution-lacking-bill-of-rights/"]troublemaking blogger Marcy Wheeler points out[/URL] that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights, which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states. (Caution: Marcy’s post has some strong language.) That means: No freedom of speech and of the press, no right to bear arms, no Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and no right to a jury trial. How … symbolic? [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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