I'm watching an entertaining Netflix television series based in Canberra called, "The Secret City."
While this is fiction, I'm constantly observing the great differences that the U.S. Constitution (and its application) would make in the story lines. For example,
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A relentless muckraker pushes for truth and transparency in Australia’s corridors of political power, despite threats to her life and career.
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While this is fiction, I'm constantly observing the great differences that the U.S. Constitution (and its application) would make in the story lines. For example,
- Arrests are made with no warrant, no "probable cause," and really, no explanation to the person being arrested. "National security" is the explanation, and everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says, "OK."
- People whose lives are in imminent danger - it doesn't even seem to occur to them that they might want to be armed with a handgun.
- When confronted by someone with a handgun, it doesn't seem to occur to the threatened person that they could seize that handgun in less time than it would take for the holder to get it out, aim it, cock it, and do anything lethal with it. They seem to go catatonic at the very sight of the weapon.
- The government tells people they have to "shut up" about eminently newsworthy matters, and they just do it (under threat of arrest). In the U.S., they would be calling the New York Times the moment the Government agent leaves the premises, knowing that they would be protected by the First Amendment.
- They drive on the wrong side of the road.