Authority Zero - PCH-82 lyrics

No one can ever tell you
What to do Beware their words
So many quick to point the finger
Without pointing their way first
There's so much we take for granted
Take control and speak your voice
Don't let them get the upper hand
Before you have no choice

In some countries even today police
Officers may search a
Person's home or office for
Evidence of wrongdoing
Cease his property and arrest him
Whenever they see fit
In the United States on the other hand
The Fourth Amendment protects the individual
And his property from unreasonable search and
Seizure by officers of the law

Double Jeopardy, the Fifth Amendment also
Guarantees the individual
That he will not be tried
Before a federal court more than
Once for the same crime

No one can ever tell you what to do
Beware their words
So many quick to point the finger
Without pointing their way first
There's so much we take for granted
Take control and speak your voice
Don't let them get the upper hand
Before you have no choice

A knock at the door whether by day or night
As a prelude to a search without authority
Of law but solely on the authority of police
Is inconsistent with the conception
Of human rights, enshrined in the history
Of basic constitutional
Documents of English speaking peoples

Although the sanctity of ones privacy
Against illegal intrusion is one
Of the most important basic
Rights in our Constitution
Experiences show that such
Intrusions occur at
The hands of overzealous police officers

No one can ever tell you what to do
Beware their words
So many quick to point the finger
Without pointing their way first
There's so much we take for granted
Take control and speak your voice
Don't let them get the upper hand
Before you have no choice

Freedom of speech and freedom of the
Press the right to speak
His mind is close to the
Heart of every American
The constitution prohibit's most forms
Of censorship over
The press and speechmakers the argument
Against censorship is clear:
No government official
Should be permitted to dictate
What ideas or beliefs we are entitled
To hear or believe both good
And evil should be averted by more
Speech and not enforced silence
Similarly while a person is free to make
Speeches on public streets he may
Be prevented from doing so when he
Uses a loud or raucous amplifier
Which disturbs the public tranquility

No one can ever tell you
What to do Beware their words
So many quick to point the finger
Without pointing their way first
There's so much we take for granted
Take control, and speak your voice
Don't let them get the upper hand
Before you have no choice