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To: cloudmountain

Although you are correct about other countries, our rights and freedoms are not graded on how much worse anywhere else is. Our rights are our rights, not some abstract based on a comparison with a 3rd world country, or any other country for that matter.

The fact that most of the world sucks does not make fascist infringement of our Constitutionally enumerated rights any less heinous. The reason I say enumerated is because it does not give us our rights, it simply states them and restricts the authority of the government to infringe. upon them.


65 posted on 11/19/2013 8:18:04 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“it simply states them and restricts the authority of the government to infringe upon them.”

Of course, no government could ever have any rightful authority to infringe upon them. That’s why Jefferson called them “unalienable.”


85 posted on 11/19/2013 9:24:21 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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