I read the first line and want to jump and cheer.
Right. The government has only the rights we give it. Not the other way around. Unfortunatly the ignorant morons in the USA choose to give it more and more. We never ever reduce the “right” of government.
So long as the people believe in and abide by the “rule of law”, governments can do ANYTHING they want - including suspension of any and all liberties.
Today, the “rule of law” is a myth. Tax evaders do not go to prison; they become cabinet officers. People in this country illegally have more rights than citizens. Juries find criminals guilty, then judges overrule. A carjacker in Florida is arrested for the ONE HUNDRED NINTYTH time and people are driving without insurance or driver’s license. What laws do I get to break?
Once the “rule of law” disappears, governments lose all authority to exist.
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.
I hope we personally will not suffer for your words and for mine, but there are far more important issues at stake. What matters is that the people of the United States of America continue as a free nation. I'm not optimistic about the usurper preserving, protecting, or defending the Constitution, but I am firmly convinced that the people, at least those who value and exercise their Second Amendment rights, will recall these words and ensure that our government returns to its proper role.
Right; 1. in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
SOOOO...
Individuals have “Rights”. Governments have “Powers”. Something amoral, like a government cannot have rights, only powers. In the same way a gun is totally amoral, which the left also confuses. Without morality. Like a rock falling on your head, it is neither good or bad, but has only the potential WITH human interaction. Government is like a gun or weapon. Can be good or bad depending on the human control, but without moral quality, and incapable of having any rights by definition.
“No government has the right to exist”
No house has the right to exist
No firearm has the right to exist
No rock has the right to exist
None of these things have any rights. The article starts out with a BS proposition.