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To: Condor51
If you are free to travel but not free to walk, bicycle, drive, or fly you really are not free to travel.
What would freedom of speech be if you were not free to print, to broadcast, to produce videos or audiotapes or write websites?
What would the right to keep and bear arms be without the right to own anything but an 18th centurt blunderbuss?
I have occasionally wondered about the wisdom of considering driving a right and sternly prosecuting careless drivers.
29 posted on 08/04/2004 8:15:44 AM PDT by Central_Floridian (Let's roll!)
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To: Central_Floridian
Good points.. however the right to travel is pretty much unabridged, it's just how you travel. IIRC it falls under the aegis of 'commerce' and that's where and why it's controlled with licenses etc. I'm free to walk from IL to CA if I choose to, but where I walked can be controlled (can't walk on an x-way, etc).

As to the 2nd Amendment and your blunderbuss argument - I agree 100%. But we know full well that the socialists are attempting to chip away daily on those rights. Kennedy and his 'Cop Killer Bullet Bill' being the current stealth attack. If we so chose, we should have a right to own a .50 Cal Barrett (now under attack) an AK-47, M-16 or any full auto rifle. Now do I want an RPG, no. Should we have a right to one... hmmm that's a toughie. But if I wanted a "Tommy Gun" I should be able to get one.

As to the 1st Amendment and "freedom of speech, print, broadcast, to produce videos or audiotapes or write websites". Here I disagree, as I believe we do need "some common sense publishing controls". I see no reason why seditious hate speech spewed by the likes of Kennedy, Daschle, Kerry cannot be controlled. And Every time some gun grabbing socialist starts spewing their tripe, I'd love to throw the same points right back at them regrading their freedoms by substituting "the press" for guns. They'd go apoplectic.

What I also find amazing is that to the anti-American, hate spewing Leftists only the 14th Amendment and one part of the 1st is sacrosanct (freedom of the press). All other of our 'rights' can, and now are subject to some form of "common sense control". Heck even most of the 5th Amendment now has limits (Eminent domain being one erosion).

In conclusion (do I hear cheers?), I still see driving as a privilege not a god given right.

34 posted on 08/04/2004 9:01:44 AM PDT by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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