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Originally Posted by Stiver  You obviously over see the fact that your refering to your essential rights as being given on a piece of paper. It's all well and good when things are stable. things go down the shitter, shit starts flying, paper isn't sturdy. Your "rights" are given to you, that is all. As soon as the American empire collapses, you'll find that 200+ year old declarations of rights and freedom don't necissarily hold up. |
If you want to go deeper than that, sure. As pointed out in the preamble of the Bill of Rights I just gave, it does not
give a single right, it
acknowledges their existence. Paper can burn, people can die, but ideas will live on.
They may not necessarily hold up in securing our rights, but it does hold up in terms of us having rights. I responded to B~E earlier with this: "Perhaps in an idealistic world, but the situation around you can be changed forever in an instant. As always brought up with terrorists though, one man's lunatic is another man's freedom fighter." Tomorrow it could be criminal to exercise my rights; yet those criminal acts are still my rights. Among these I believe is my right to rebel against an illegitimate government, one which does not allow me to exercise my rights, a right which it is my civic duty to exercise.