Now that we live in a police state, none of us can afford not to know this stuff. Even after the police state collapses, it will still be good stuff to know. ==================================== TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 241 [Enforcement of Constitutional Rights] If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the, or because of his having so exercised the same;...not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, ... or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned .... The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause (reason to believe a crime has actually been committed). Search and seizure (including arrest) is limited according to specific information supplied to the issuing court. [False arrest is where one is held in custody without probable cause, or without an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.] ==================================== What to Do at TSA-Gestapo Checkpoints - Life in a Police State