The sister of Sharon Tate, one of Charles Manson’s victims, shows up at every one of Manson’s parole hearings. She does so to remind the parole board of exactly the cost to her family of Manson’s crime in the hope that Manson will never be released.
Likewise, there are activists that have to show up at every Congressional hearing to show the legislators that his/hers rights are at stake. If they do not do this the legislators just carry on passing laws that erode personal liberties. To be sure, very few laws take away many rights at once but taken all together they account for major losses of our rights.
Why is activism of this kind necessary? Why do citizens have to defend their very liberty from legislators that vowed to uphold our Constitution and defend our rights? When did our representatives get the power to play Caesar and pick winners and losers? What is it going to take to steady this ship of state in a direction towards individual liberty? I hate that I can only ask these questions. The answers appear to me to be painful or impossible with our current government.
