Inalienable, but forgotten Rights:

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Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:02:34 -0700

Inalienable, but forgotten Rights

 

 

Inalienable, but forgotten Rights:

 

The section on rights (below) should be eye-opening to all US

residents. How many people remember in their U.S. History classes the

teacher explaining that " WE THE PEOPLE " have granted the government

the right to exist; not the other way around?

 

In the US " Declaration of Independence " we are told of " inalienable

rights. " These are the rights which the Constitution (along with

its sworn upholders, ; that is; elected officials) is supposed to

protect.

 

When the Bill or Rights was added to the Constitution, the

arguments of the day centered around everyone knowing these rights

were inalienable, and therefore did not need enumeration in the

Constitution. Many people thought that putting some rights into

print would cause other rights (inalienable, remember) to be

forgotten; hence there is the wording about other rights not

enumerated in the Constitution, which also are to be protected.

 

The major difference between this US system and the prevailing

European system is that the US removed itself from having a government

granted to them by God. There is no " Divine Right of the President "

in the United States, no matter how many insane fundamentalist

Christians believe so.

 

All of Europe was/is governed by grant from above; ( " God " to ruler)

people only have rights granted by the state. The Universal Rights of

Man are granted from the state, just as titles, dukedoms, and lands

are traditionally granted by kings to nobles who support them.

 

 

The United States threw out that power base (except in the State of

Louisiana, which has some old French laws) and set up a system in

which people.... individual free people.... had the rights first, and

gave up some of them to " the state " in order to have protection such

as police and armies, roads, schools, and a court system for " redress

of grievances. "

 

The Constitutional System acknowledges that the rights start with

people, and as Abraham Lincoln affirmed, the people have the

inalienable right to oppose their government, and even to overthrow it.

 

The present corporate/religio/neocon complex is intent on fooling the

citizens into believing that their government is higher, more holy,

and unquestionable. While they often speak of our right to be

dis-satisfied with our government, they also maintain that they have

the right to put any of us who are dis-satisfied under surveillance.

If we converse about our dis-satisfaction, we might be considered

" dangerous " and secretly incarcerated under Homeland Security Rules,

for aiding the enemy.

 

This is clearly unconstitutional, even if the laws and the

constitution say otherwise. While Christians always talk of higher

laws and want to post the Ten Commandments everywhere, Real citizens

should talk of higher rights and posting the Bill of Rights and

Declaration of Independence everywhere.

 

BTW, it would be really nice if the Christians who always want to

post the Ten Commandments everywhere, would attack our elected leaders

who " bear false witness, " etc. instead of attacking those of us who

value our inalienable right to be free of religious oppression.

 

Love to All,

 

A