Today is considered to be ‘Constitution Day’ and is sometimes called ‘Citizenship Day’ for the USA. The current Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787.

Typically, this day is not really celebrated in the USA.

Yet, those who live in the USA may wish to re-read its Bill of Rightswhich came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791.

Now here is the first amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Let me state that when it comes to keeping the Sabbath, paying for abortion, speaking out on moral issues, the courts in the USA have been making rules that have prohibited the free exercise of religion. This will worsen and the time will come when there is a famine of the word (watch also Famine of the Word?).

Notice also a news item that came out a few weeks ago:

Guess who wins when someone challenges the U.S. Supreme Court’s rules concerning free speech on the plaza in front of its building?
Yeah, it’s the Supreme Court.
The ruling came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which affirmed a ban on expressive activity such as handing out leaflets or carrying a sign on the U.S. Supreme Court plaza, the publicly owned patio leading to the steps of the court.
“If citizens cannot stand out in the open and voice their disapproval of their government, its representatives and its policies without fearing prosecution, then the First Amendment is little more than window-dressing on a store window – pretty to look at but serving little real purpose,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, the president of the Rutherford Institute.
Whitehead represented a man who contended the ban violated his constitutional rights at the place responsible for protecting those rights
“Through a series of carefully crafted legislative steps and politically expedient court rulings, government officials have managed to disembowel this fundamental freedom, rendering it with little more meaning than the right to file a lawsuit against government officials. The First Amendment has, for all intents and purposes, become an exercise in futility,” Whitehead said.http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/protectors-of-free-speech-crack-down-on-free-speech/#c3YIqH88BTAuG2Yk.99

But this is not the only one. In time, expect more restrictions speaking against immorality on matters like the homosexual agenda.

Notice also the following which came out less than three weeks ago:

It’s no secret that President Obama and his Democratic Party want to restrict the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
In addition, First Amendment religious-freedoms protections have been challenged by Obamacare.
And freedom of speech? That’s just fine as long as it lines up with the “same-sex marriage” social agenda.
Now, a case is posing a challenge to the Fifth Amendment’s property rights and due process protections along with the Sixth Amendment’s assurance of counsel for those accused of crimes.
The U.S. Supreme Court now is posed with the question: Does the government have the right to charge you with a crime and then seize your bank accounts, checkbook, savings and other assets so that you cannot afford to hire a lawyer to defend yourself?
The Rutherford Institute has filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the nation’s Founders – who wrote the Fifth and Sixth Amendments – would be horrified by the idea.http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/now-feds-targeting-2-more-constitutional-rights/#0B7geQlOvSSvzseC.99

The government of the USA has basically decided that its citizens do not need certain rights as much as the government needs to restrict/ignore them.

People such as Edward Snowden, despite whatever flaws he may have, have pointed out some of how the USA has violated other portions of the Bill of Rights, such as the 4th-6th amendment rights. So, he has been in hiding for that. Here is what those amendments were supposed to protect (some of which have been mishandled related to him personally by the US government): ... read full article.