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To: allmendream
Nobody has a “right” that it is incumbent upon someone else to provide for them.

That is why none of the rights named in the Bill of Rights are for goods or services. I never hear conservatives in the media make this point explicitly but I wish I did. It is key. It is also a fairly simple concept, easy to explain so even a college student can grasp it.

68 posted on 02/09/2012 1:32:02 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Yep.

The right to free exercise of religion doesn’t mean someone has to build me a Church.

The right to peaceably assemble doesn’t mean that people must go assemble where I tell them to.

The right to keep and bear arms doesn’t mean someone has to provide me firearms and training.

The right to be secure in my home person papers and effects from unreasonable search and seizure doesn’t mean that someone has to provide me a home, papers and effects.

Our rights are given by our Creator - and do not require the compelled unpaid labor of anyone else.

Slavery is (should be) illegal in these United States.


69 posted on 02/09/2012 1:37:09 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
0bama framed this argument as “positive rights” and “negative rights”.

Justice Ginsburg confirmed this view of the law when she recommended that the Constitutions of nations that promise “positive rights” (she didn't AFAIK use that term) be emulated - not our own.

To 0bama and his ilk a “negative right” is something that the government cannot do to you, while a “positive right” is something that the government must do FOR you.

Where are our rights from again?

71 posted on 02/09/2012 1:49:46 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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