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It concerns me how many people that I encounter out there in meatspace who don't understand this. Many good people on the right side of things will say things about how the Constitution "gives" us rights. No sir, it is merely an affirmation that we consider those things to be inalienable God-given human rights that no person or government has the right to deny a citizen.
This country has been in big trouble since long before any of us were born. It does occur to me which is sometimes easy to forget that the people already tried to stop the government from growing into a cancerous, toxic abusive power. It was the Civil War, falsely portrayed as a noble struggle against the practice of slavery, wherein half the country attempted to refute an encroaching Federal Government declaration of overreaching power over sovereign states. As it goes, the victors make sure the reality of that sad loss can never be discussed because of the "racism" bogeyman they use to obfuscate the truth of that conflict.
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Do these inalienable, God given rights exist for all people or just citizens of the states? It is important to remember that claiming you have rights is all well and good. At the end of the day, only the ones who can defend themselves have rights at all when nature has a say about it.
Lincoln was doubtless a great leader, but his posthumous hero worship is a major disservice to the thousands of people who opposed expansive Federalism. It's rarely mentioned that he stomped all over habeus corpus, having a man arrested and held without trial in direct defiance of a the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (who was acting as a sort of Circuit Court Judge at the time) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman
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[–] SolarBaby 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
It concerns me how many people that I encounter out there in meatspace who don't understand this. Many good people on the right side of things will say things about how the Constitution "gives" us rights. No sir, it is merely an affirmation that we consider those things to be inalienable God-given human rights that no person or government has the right to deny a citizen.
This country has been in big trouble since long before any of us were born. It does occur to me which is sometimes easy to forget that the people already tried to stop the government from growing into a cancerous, toxic abusive power. It was the Civil War, falsely portrayed as a noble struggle against the practice of slavery, wherein half the country attempted to refute an encroaching Federal Government declaration of overreaching power over sovereign states. As it goes, the victors make sure the reality of that sad loss can never be discussed because of the "racism" bogeyman they use to obfuscate the truth of that conflict.
[–] grillmaster 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Do these inalienable, God given rights exist for all people or just citizens of the states? It is important to remember that claiming you have rights is all well and good. At the end of the day, only the ones who can defend themselves have rights at all when nature has a say about it.
[–] rejectedfromreddit 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lincoln was doubtless a great leader, but his posthumous hero worship is a major disservice to the thousands of people who opposed expansive Federalism. It's rarely mentioned that he stomped all over habeus corpus, having a man arrested and held without trial in direct defiance of a the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (who was acting as a sort of Circuit Court Judge at the time) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman