Thread by @TCFKA_NCSteve

@azaustinsmith 1/ The first Amendment right of free speech is subject and abridged by to the law of libel and slander, incitement to riot, copyright infringement, unfair competition, and criminal conspiracy.

@azaustinsmith 2/ The First Amendment's Establishment clause does not forbid secular prayers by government, putting "In God We Trust" on currency nor require the government to permit religious snake handling, bigamy, child abuse, or human sacrifice.

@azaustinsmith 3/ The First Amendment right to peaceably assemble does not prevent governments from limiting where protests may occur, requiring permits for marches, or, yeah, enforce social distancing during pandemics.

@azaustinsmith 4/ First Amendment freedom of the press is likewise subject to and limited by the civil law of defamation, privacy and copyright, and may be abridged for national security reasons under compelling circumstances.

@azaustinsmith 5/ The Fourth Amendment right to security of person, home and papers and requirement of a warrant made upon showing of probable cause is riddled with exceptions. Cops may search and seize evidence without a warrant for safety, to prevent destruction of evidence...

@azaustinsmith 6/ ...The police may use devices to record all of the phone numbers from your incoming and outgoing calls, header information from emails, collect cell phone metadata, go through your garbage, seize any evidence of criminal activity in plain view.

@azaustinsmith 7/ Your Fourth Amendment rights are extremely curtailed when you are pulled over. Cops may set up checkpoints as long as they inspect everyone or use some random method to pick who to search.

You have NO Fourth Amendment rights in a port of entry, even if you are on US soil.

@azaustinsmith 8/ Cops may arrest you for a misdemeanor without a warrant anytime and for a felony if they catch you under circumstances making it reasonable to believe you were committing a crime.

@azaustinsmith 9/ Your Fifth Amendment right to due process is not unlimited. The amount of process and kind of opportunity to be heard before being deprived of life, liberty or property depends on the circumstances.

@azaustinsmith 10/ Your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent is easily waived.

Your Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses (i.e. exclude what they say unless its in Court, under oath) in criminal cases is subject to numerous exceptions.

@azaustinsmith 11/ Your Sixth Amendment right to counsel is likewise limited-doesn't apply in misdemeanor cases. Your right to trial by jury depends on whether the crime was triable by jury at English Common Law in 1783.

@azaustinsmith 12/ Your Eight Amendment protections from cruel and unusual punishment do not prevent authorities from locking you down in solitary 23 hours a day despite conclusive evidence it will cause you to go crazy.

@azaustinsmith 13/ Every fundamental right under the constitution, all of these and the right to travel, to vote, to have children and raise them as you see fit, do what you want with your own property, is subject to reasonable regulation to protect public health and safety.

@azaustinsmith 14/ The idea that the Founders intended that, unlike every other right, the right to keep and use inherently dangerous instrumentalities, articles designed and intended to inflict harm is uniquely exempt from regulation in the interest of public health and safety, is insane.