Rights

Liberals are in a tizzy. They've been in a tizzy since 9/11. Seems the government is using the War on Terror to grab all their rights. Of course, when you ask them what rights they had eight years ago that they don't have today, they have no response. Well, they have a response, but nothing I'd care to repeat here. But, they are correct. The government is grabbing our rights -- and it's all the fault of liberals. One thing libs can't seem to understand is that a government that can take away a few rights is a government that can take away all of them. They should be fighting as hard as conservatives to protect our freedom of worship. All Americans should band together to protect our right to keep and bear arms. Why does the left support higher and higher taxes when those taxes give the government the power to do anything it can imagine, from fighting a war on drugs, to engaging in foreign wars, to studying the mating habits of badgers? How did we come to the point where the federal government can tell us how much water we have in our toilets and cities can ban trans-fats and even goose liver? But a liberal can't stop being a control freak any more than a skunk can stop stinking. It isn't enough that they don't wear fur, they try to force everyone not to wear fur. It isn't enough that they are vegetarians, they try to force everyone to be a vegetarian, it isn't enough that they hate SUVs, they try to force everyone to drive around in little clown cars. And they don't stop at trying to persuade and change hearts, they elect politicians who are control freaks too and are only too happy to pass more and more laws to control every aspect of our lives. And then, when the beast turns on them, they squeal like stuck pigs and start invoking ghosts of the past like Hitler. But you never hear them invoke even worse specters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., etc., etc.. That's because, like liberals, those monsters were only trying to make the world a better place. And they didn't care how many rights they had to take away and how many millions they had to torture and murder to do it. Our Founders realized that our rights descend from God, not from government. Oops, the "G" word. Here is where liberals make their biggest mistake. With their bogus separation of church and state, they have transferred the task of granting freedom from God to the government. And that gives government unlimited power. The only right a government can grant is one it has first taken away. And once it has taken away a right -- like the right to bear arms -- it takes decades to get that right back -- or sometimes, we lose it forever. A right is a right. It doesn't matter whether liberals think a right is outmoded, whether they think it is dangerous or whether they think it is just downright stupid. It doesn't matter whether liberals are scared to death of God, hate God, or simply believe God is a fairy tale. The very idea that rights descend from God and not from the government is so important a concept that every liberal should be willing to fight to the death for that principle. (Yeah, yeah, the thought that liberals would fight for anything is ludicrous) It is at the very core of our freedoms. Trying to eliminate God from the public square is laying the foundation for tyranny. What is a right? I can tell you what a right is not. If one person's "right" impinges on the rights of others, it is not a right, it is an act of tyranny. As the old saying goes, my right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins. A woman's "right" to abort her child deprives that child of the right to life. It is not a right, it is an act of tyranny -- the very tyranny that Hitler exercised. That's as far as my thoughts go right now. I might expand on this post -- or not. OK, one more thing. It should be the duty of every true American to base their convictions and actions on these words:

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.