...should consider the opinion of an outstanding (former) member of the Rutgers faculty. I'm referring to Professor Albert Blaustein.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/23/obituaries/albert-p-blaustein-a-drafter-of-constitutions-dies-at-72.html
Professor Blaustein considered the US Constitution the country's most important export and wrote:
"...he said that if he were asked to revise it, he would make the right to privacy and freedom of travel explicit provisions."
"America's Founding Fathers believed in a constitutionally limited republic and they succeeded in constructing a regime that balanced order and liberty."
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2004/04/20040402110801maduobba0.7845575.html#axzz3zIuDQrZE
That balance of order and liberty exists today. It depends on, rather than survives despite, the whole of the Constitution in its recognition of human rights.
Please take all this stupid crime focused crap about flushing what has been acknowledged as a right and consider pursuing the idea of liberty as described by the Founders. Einstein said, "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." The ACLU regards gun registration as an invasion of privacy. Who can be free without having privacy respected? The idea of "the pursuit of happiness" respects that the just individual exercise his free will to best benefit himself and those dependent on him. Sixteen centuries ago Augustine of Hippo wrote, "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
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