Peoples Rights Amendment: Absurd But Still Dangerous

If four years ago, a suggestion that the First Amendment right protecting religious freedom would be trampled upon by a future Obama Administration, would have been ridiculed as absurd.  But it happened.  Obama's HHS mandates (will soon) compel religious organizations to pay for services whether they violate the organization's teachings or not.

Now there is a Democrat-sponsored Peoples Rights Amendment which would reinterpret the entire Bill of Rights to exclude the freedoms of speech, petition, assembly, etc. to associations of citizens.  It is not hyperbole to say, as Eugene Volokh recently blogged, "if the People’s Rights Amendment were enacted, Congress would have an entirely free hand to censor what is published in newspapers organized as corporations, what is published by book publishers organized as corporations, what is created by movie studios that are organized as corporations, what is distributed by music companies that are organized as corporations, and so on."  One additional point, many Catholic service organizations, dioceses, and other religious denominations are organized as corporations.  They too would be subject to being silenced and censored by an incresingly beligerant state. 

The United States of America is on the verge of becoming something unrecognizable--a socialist dystopia.