Posted on 05/16/2009 12:26:46 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Edited on 05/16/2009 1:39:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Coach nails it here. Our rights are not Constitutionally "granted", they are "God given", endowed upon us by our Creator.
We forget that basic, fundamental principle at all of our peril.
As we are seeing.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - GOD GIVEN, NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY GRANTED
FYI...pass the salt.
My Crator can beat your Crator.
Jeff, before we pass it to everyone we know, you might wanna get the mods to fix it; “by our Crator.”
Best,
Doc
“Our rights are not Constitutionally “granted”, they are “God given”
“God Given” perhaps but not “God Protected”. A “right” is only protected to the extent that one is willing to fight for it.
A weird aside, but wasn’t Nancy Crator (sp?) the salt creature from ST:TOS?
>>“God Given” perhaps but not “God Protected”.
>>A “right” is only protected to the extent
>>that one is willing to fight for it.
Thus - “TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men....”
If only each and every individual of the government bureaucracy would comprehend and OBEY this simple declaration, regarding the proper purpose of American governance....
I don’t know - LOL. I will try to research it.
Please correct the 1st sentence in this content of the thread and change “Crator” to “Creator”. Sorry for the typo and my bad.
Anyway the rule of law can and does step on our rights.
Played by Jeanne Bal
Episode: TOS 006 - The Man Trap
"Wife of archaeologist Robert Crater, Nancy accompanied her husband to planet M-113 in 2261. She was killed roughly three years later by the last surviving, salt-sucking creature native to that planet. The creature used its hypnotic powers to appear to Prof. Crater as Nancy, giving him companionship in return for a steady supply of salt. In 2266, the creature also appeared as Nancy to Leonard McCoy, who had been romantically involved with Nancy ten years prior."
A BUNCH OF US DID SO AT KLAMATH
...and now this!
FNC: Drought-Stricken Farmers Lose Fight for Water to Endangered Fish
By Brad Wilmouth (Bio | Archive)
May 9, 2009 - 18:35 ET
On Friday’s Hannity show on FNC, correspondent Ainsley Earhardt filed an in depth report on the plight of farmers in California who are starving for water, exacerbated by a federal court which ordered that one of their sources of water be shut down due to fears that irrigation would harm an endangered species of fish, the delta smelt. Earhardt began: “California’s Central Valley is considered by many to be the richest and most productive farmland in the nation. But this land is being threatened by the small, harmless-looking minnow called the delta smelt. Recently, it has landed on the endangered species list, causing a federal court to shut down vital pumps to farmers to help preserve it.”
A shot was soon shown of Earhardt walking on dry ground that used to be a canal full of water until environmentalists convinced a federal court to shut off the water supply: “This was a canal full of gushing water irrigating the farmland here in the San Joaquin Valley. But as you can see, it is all dried up. The pumps were turned off after environmentalists won a federal court case.”
When I heard this on Friday, I was instantly reminded of the courageous actions by you and a great many others, and it appears on the surface that once again the courts and rabid environmentalists are willing to sell humans out for something that humans are masters over. There is a web site that is covering the plight of the farmers, but I can’t remember where I wrote it down. If I was to do a search on the Delta Smelt, I’m sure I would find it.
I’ve always believed that this is one of the primary reasons that the left has been big supporters of the imaginary “wall between religion and government.”
As was so well stated earlier, rights come from “the Creator.” These rights are granted to us, and we have them, no matter what. Although we might be unable to exercise certain rights due to a hostile government, this doesn’t mean that we don’t have those rights. The constitution simply limits the powers of government to place restrictions on those rights. And in fact, the powers of government are supposed to come FROM the people.
But the left would LOVE for everyone to believe that rights come from the government, because when the government decides that you don’t need the right, since the right comes from the government, they can simply turn it off like a spigot.
So in effect, the left has it all backwards. They thing that the source of all rights is “the government,” and the government has its power... Well, because it does. But in the design of our Constitutional republic, the founders wanted eo make sure that we knew that our “rights” came from our creator, and the powers of the government came from the consent of the governed, i.e. US!
Mark
The envoir. wing nuts need to be defeated everywhere..
Now that you mention it (and looking at the picture), I think you inadvertently traced Helen Thomas' lineage going forward in time.
Why is it I suspect that very soon, the habitats of the “Delta Smelt” are going to be ravaged, poisoned, or whatever. . . .because some pissed-off, going-broke farmers are going to attempt the equivalent of “Shoot and Shovel”
He’s only saying what FReepers have been saying for years.
Passing on the salt...
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