Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
Rights are like how some people here describe land ownership.
Yours only to the extent you can defend and enforce them yourself
Captdon (01-16-2019)
That's true in a practical sense, but that doesn't really address the underlying legitimacy of the right itself.
I mean, hypothetically speaking, if there were a faction powerful enough to take control over America, they could decree almost anything they wanted. For example, they could decree that two plus two equals five. And they could attempt to enforce that decree using coercive powers. Yet that would not make their decree legitimate or truthful.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
I hate to be a literalist in this, but I think I must. How can you say truthfully that a government cannot do something, when it's clear that they CAN? I think we did this the other day, and I'm sorry for not getting it. I'm trying.
It's clear throughout history that power and might takes whatever it wants. Due process can be perverted and outright ignored.
Do you perhaps really mean SHOULD NOT, instead of cannot?
You are wrong about police.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
What do you find troubling?
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.