Survey: What rights do you value? (FREEP!)

Minnesota Public Radio ^ | 10/18/2005 | Minnesota Public Radio

[jdege]

Survey: What rights do you value?

See survey results

Which one of these rights is the one you value most and the one you'd keep before all others?

• The right to bear arms
• The right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment
• The right to freedom of speech.
• The right to protection from self-incrimination.
• The right to legal counsel and a jury trial.
• The right to privacy.
• The right to freedom of religion.
• The right assemble peacefully.
• The right to freedom of the press.
• The right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Which one of these rights is the one you value least and would give up before all others?

• The right to bear arms
• The right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment
• The right to freedom of speech.
• The right to protection from self-incrimination.
• The right to legal counsel and a jury trial.
• The right to privacy.
• The right to freedom of religion.
• The right assemble peacefully.
• The right to freedom of the press.
• The right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Vote Now!

[Americanexpat]

I ain't voting to give up any right ....period

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I agree. I thought when I went off to war I was fighting for each and everyone of them. Having done so, I am not about to let anyone take them away from me.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Bump for RKBA and screw the press!

They're the biggest reason we are now in the toilet.

[talleyman]

I'd give up my right to Minnesota Public Radio.

LOL! are write-in's allowed?

[Bigh4u2]

Bogus poll.

It should have had one more choice at the end of each column.

"None of the above"

Without it, the poll is nothing more than a dodge and an attempt to slant the outcome on the RKBA controversy.

[NVD]

The Public radio folks very subtly placed the "right to privacy" in the midst of all of our other rights granted by Amendments to the Constitution. Do these folks understand that the "right to privacy" is case law (Griswald) and that it continues to be debated on its merit for the past 4 decades? Myopic fools!

[Jason_b]

property! Property is considered to be in the list: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, because you cannot pursue happiness without property. We have given that up. Kelo v. New London. 1933. Property is an illusion now. Property is what the government lets us go on having.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

Americans have a right to free internet access.

[Prodigal Son]

Personally, I think most of the rights are interlocking and interdependent. It's not much use to have just one right and get rid of all the others. You would still have freedom of speech in a prison cell, for example, but you would in no way be free. Likewise, you could have your weapon and still have your life and liberty crushed by an oppressive regime. What you would need against the regime is not just the weapon but the right to assemble with your fellow citizens as well as other rights.

I think discussions about which of the rights I'd prefer to give up or keep are silly. I prefer to keep them all.

[jdege]

Property is considered to be in the list: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

"Pursuit of happiness" was an intentional euphomism for property. Jefferson didn't use the word "property" because some would have interpreted it as a defense of slavery.

[absolootezer0]

RKBA is the insurance that we keep the rest.

[VoiceOfBruck]

What rights do you value?

The ones you just lost.

[Godebert]

"Although I believe in the RKBA, but the right to free speech is the foundation I think that gave us all the rest."

We didn't win the American Revolution and our Freedom with speeches...... it was won with the use of arms.