Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tucker Goes Full Conspiracy in Demented Rant" video.

None of the other 9 Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights never imagined that the people would turn on them and flip them back on the American people. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of my Frat brothers were pre-law. So I ended up being asked a lot about how Australia worked and we had many conversations about the Amendments. These days I can barely believe what's happening. Americans used to be proud that because of civics classes they understood what their constitution was and importantly WHY it was great. These days I feel the US Constitution is one of the great tragedies of modern society. Without it the modern world as we know it might not have existed. Do you know that the reason every developed nation has a police force independent of the military is because of the 2nd Amendment. It comes from that bit about a "well organized militia" being important to public security (and safety). Prior to the 2nd no country in history had a civilian controlled police force dealing with crime and security. It had always been done via the king's or emperor's or regent's central command using their military. Go check your pre-revolution history and try and find mention of police officers. The colonies weren't a police state because the police didn't exist. It was a military dictatorship ruled over by military officers and policed by their troops. The entire Western World has the founding fathers to thank for so many basic freedoms. They might not be spelled out in our laws or constitutions the same way but we got them because the founding fathers did what they did. It took me many years to realise that my frat brothers were right about many things. Its why I now consider it such a tragedy that the nation that gave the world this incredible gift of "basic human rights" is the nation tearing it apart. As for Rupert Murdoch. We tried to warn the British before he moved there and started doing what he had done here - they didn't listen. We then tried to warn America what he was like when he moved there - you didn't listen. Every nation has some people who they wished never existed, he's one of ours.
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@rurdy2rk380 When somebody told me that about 2 years ago I could barely believe it. Because back in the 80s that was something kids found boring BUT ADULTS said "Yeah our country is great because,..." I eventually learned not to argue on the subject because I was surrounded by well educated people. Australia was different. We had this long long course in history a lot of it English History but what it did give us was this huge base of information for "How we got here." I found out a few years back we'd stopped teaching that as well. We now have generations who lack solid grounding in where we are at in time.
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@nancyross7935 There's an amazing thing about the 2nd that has been totally lost in the hyper BS marathon of garbage. Prior to the 2nd, every nation in history policed its people via its military. Irrespective of the existence of sheriffs and marshals and constables in various places the actual footmen with weapons were the local military. Either the local lords of the kings/emperors/regents men. No matter where in the world it was if they wore a uniform they answered to the ruler of the land. That part about the "well organized militia" is the first time any nation anywhere put the local security and policing of the population under local civilian control. What the entire western world has in terms of police forces all stems from the introduction of the 2nd. If you look at just the first 4 amendments there are key thigs every developed modern western nation now has in some form. 1) You have the right to speak out and inform people and petition the government with your grievances. 2) You and your community have the right to organize their security or at least have a say in it. 3) The government cannot simply take your property or use it or your land without compensation. 4) The government can't just search you or your property because they feel like it. They have to have or prove cause. The next 6 are basically about due process and equal/fair/reasonable treatment. Every nation takes these things for granted but it was America that actually wrote them down and said we will never be unfairly treated or dominated again. That's what makes it so tragic that the top 1% have finally found ways around it and flipped it.
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