'I started this thread because I damn well felt like it. Where I come from, we have something called the 1st amendment."

While the United States Constitution's First Amendment identifies the rights to assemble and to petition the government, the text of the First Amendment does not make specific mention of a right to association. Nevertheless, the United States Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Alabama that the freedom of association is an essential part of Freedom of Speech because, in many cases, people can engage in effective speech only when they join with others.

Which, in my humble opinion, is closely guarded by the 2nd Amendment!

"....every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats."