I suppose what really bothers me is the twisting of the interpretation of the Constitution by the “elitist” people mentioned several times throughout these comments.
I do know about checks and balances, yes. However, any system is flawed when there’s CICO – Crap In, Crap Out. Corrupt people, power-hungry people are everywhere, searching for more power, more control – this is the very reason for the corruption of the Constitution.
I just feel that the changing of the very basis of the Constitution (for example, gay marriage) is inherently wrong. If something NEEDS to be changed, due to a necessity of the people, then so be it. But who is to really decide, anyway? The people in power, the people most likely to be corrupted…
As it was once said by a famous author, George Orwell I believe, “Power corrupts. Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.”
I’m not for the “man”, and I’m not for the “anarchist” – I’m for what’s right. Perhaps my views are convoulted, conflicted even – and perhaps I don’t really know 100% what I’m talking about. But hey. That’s life, I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN2jhWjeVw

OK, what exact parts are you bothered about being interpreted?  You do know that that cross-checking you mention is actually part of the checks and balances of the three branch government right?  Congress makes laws, the Courts determine the constitutionality of those laws, and the Executive enforces the laws. 

The ability to amend the Constitution is built in, so I’m not entirely sure what additions you might be taking issue with, but my curiosity is piqued.  Especially when you say it should not be interpreted, but we should preserve the original intent and spirit of the document (which does require some interpretation as parts of it are not as straightforward as maybe they should be).

Interesting viewpoint on this one, guys.
I’m not saying we should sit back and take anything. And I’m not saying that we shouldn’t bitch and complain – after all, complaining is one of the driving forces of change.

All I’m saying is that the constitution was founded on some clear, basic principles that shouldn’t be infringed upon – by anyone. I believe that the constitution should not be as open to interpretation and change as it is – or at least, have some sort of (efficient) system of cross-checking for it, to help preserve the original intent and spirit of it.
George Washington would be rolling in his grave nowadays, is all I’m saying.

you’re not in Iraq, getting beaten down and tortured for not believing in Allah

Before Rummy and Shrub threw all the pieces in the air, Iraq was, comparatively, one of the most religeous tolerant countries in the middle east, far freer that Bush’s chums in Saudi.  Tariq Aziz is Christian, he changed his name to fit in better, but didn’t convert.  Baghdad had a synogogue. Bin Laden hated Saddam for his secularlism.

The religeous loonies are now there because Rummy ignored day+1 in his planning, against the advise of US and British generals, and the attempts of Bush’s few allies to get some semblance of post conquest policy from him.

The Constitution was originally founded on the religion of this country

No, it was founded on the idea that human beings deserve some bottom line, or are entitled to at least some set of things. The constitution was the framework for enforcing that. So when you say:

you – the people who do nothing but sit back, tear it down, bitch about it, expect *this* *this* and *this* to be done lickety-splits because they think it’s “unconstitutional”

… are a part of the problem, then it becomes clear to me that you are a part of those people who would encourage:

corrupt-ass people to twist the constitution to their will.

… because what you really want us to do is

sit back and take it

and not

bitch about it

. Well, I’m here to tell you what you should already know: We bitch and complain because we can, because if we don’t make our opinions known, we can’t assemble communities of common interest who fight for what we want. It is not enough to know that

if you were somewhere else, this same amount of expression – Hell, the Internet (China for example) in some places just doesn’t exist in the same form or spirit in any way

  because we agreed on a set of basic rights of American citizens when we founded this country.

There’s another quote from a friend of mine who sums it up nicely:

By not voting, you encourage a system where a vote is irrelevant.

While some (if not most) of the parts about essential freedoms being taken away are true…

“…Seven states that you cannot hold office unless you believe in God” – well, I say cry.

The Constitution was originally founded on the religion of this country, as well as the intention that the people’s rights be clear, observed, protected.

It’s not entirely that way anymore, but you’re talking about how the constitution was warped; how Americans simply “wrap themselves in the flag” and make every insult directed at them or their beliefs an insult towards America. But the point stands; the original religion here was Catholicism/Christianity. To bitch and whine because you used one of the core freedoms of the US – freedom of religion – you’re not in Iraq, getting beaten down and tortured for not believing in Allah, you’re not over in India getting the shit kicked out of you for accidentally bumping into a statue of Ginish – no, you’re making your thoughts, your feelings on it public – with little to no risk of reprisal from anyone. Even as much flag-bashing as you do in this article, and you still speak your mind; you weren’t picked up by SS or have your door busted down because of the “Patriot Act” – even if the P.A. itself *is* highly unpatriotic in the original spirit of this country. Just keep in mind that if you were somewhere else, this same amount of expression – Hell, the Internet (China for example) in some places just doesn’t exist in the same form or spirit in any way. And while we *are* becoming sheep, it’s because of two types of people – the people who sit back and take it, and you – the people who do nothing but sit back, tear it down, bitch about it, expect *this* *this* and *this* to be done lickety-splits because they think it’s “unconstitutional” – well, a lot of people think a lot of things are wrong. But it’s due to this want for control and want for power, this want for…omnipotence, almost, that seems to be corrupting the American society, the “good old-fashioned values” of the U.S., causing corrupt-ass people to twist the constitution to their will.

“The Constitution in Crisis: The State of Civil Liberties in America.”

Right now we’re being subverted by C-student types

That can’t be right. Where’s your evidence?

Time magazine listed their “influential people” and included Rosie O’Donnell but left out GWB

Oh. *gulp*

I reminded someone recently that the planet is ruled by the representatives of 50 million people who voted for The Coward POTUS … twice … and 6 billion people didn’t get a chance to vote for the fucker who affects their lives like no other one person.

Boy, you got that right.  Time magazine listed their “influential people” and included Rosie O’Donnell but left out GWB.  Rather poor signal-to-noise ratio in the connection to reality.