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... Elena Kagen, stated emphatically that she didn’t believe in rights that are inherent to us.

I don't believe this is correct, going by the clip that Rush played. I think you could say she conspicuously declined to affirm such a belief, and she did say she wouldn't base rulings on them, in any case.

I thought these comments were very weak, especially in view of the ninth amendment, which explicitly recognized unenumerated rights.

Of course Ms. Kagan doesn’t believe in such antiquated things as “inherent rights”.

Is it not obvious that this is exactly why she was chosen?

No “real world” experience AT ALL, and not much of a “record” to pin on her.

But anyone can look and see “what is there” behind the facade —and what kind of decisions she will render from her seat of “justice”... :)

No reputable individual would vote for this crypto-Marxist skank and Homo-Leninist just on the face of her own admissions’!

I believe there is a grand effort to revise and deconstruct the record for people like Kagan and Obama. The current pop-culture thinking being pushed has Obama as a definitive authority on the constitution. And if, this movement prevails in their attempt to remove the underlying precept of “inalienable right,” rights which can not be surrendered as an individual’s rights well above Government’s control; then rights are/will be only extended from Government based on what the Federal Government permits (as in France); instead of being constrained or restricted as defined by the U.S. Constitution.

We’re in trouble just knowing that there are jackasses living in the country who actually believe Kagan is qualified to be on the Supreme Court. I’m getting tired of the dumbasses in the “media” always telling us that every dumbass, radical liberal that comes down the pike is the smartest person alive. If Kagan is so damn smart, why is she a dumbass commie lib? Smart people believe in freedom and liberty, not slavery and communism.

OMG, that is the keystone of what makes the United States unique. We are not granted rights by government or by the Constitution. Our rights originate with our very humanity. We are not subjects. We are the original author who grants power to our government institutions and that which is not delegated is retained by the People.

Because of this, the majority cannot abrogate basic rights of the individual for the general benefit. The individual has freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of idea, and freedom of action that does not injure another.

It is not this way in European democracies, such as France. They believe that the individual surrenders his inherent rights for superior civil rights and security. Ergo, the individual can be ruled by the majority and the general benefit.

If this woman does not “get” what we are all about, she has absolutely no business being on the Supreme Court.

I sent the below letter to a bunch of papers, talk shows, and the committee on Friday. Hopefully, a few liberals will not be able to ignore, unlike Kagan, that even one of their greatest icons, and the leading empire of the communist world both acknowledged the existance of natural rights for humanity.

Senator Coburn asked Elena Kagan whether there are natural, inalienable rights for people, which our founding fathers understood to be independent of and condition precedent for the Constitution. The same understanding is among the founding documents of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt did have to compromise on the inclusion of god to get the Soviet Union to sign on, but all nations at that San Francisco conference acknowledged inherent individual human dignity.

Kagan’s failure to understand and acknowledge natural, inalienable rights, as a test for laws enacted by societies, should be fatal to her confirmation. Here is a comparison of defining textual portions of the documents.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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.

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…. Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations,

Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

President Obama’s nominee for the United States Supreme Court, Elena Kagen, stated emphatically that she didn’t believe in rights that are inherent to us.

That is the mindset of every tyrant and every sociopath that has ever lived. There is no rational basis for liberty or freedom without the concept of inherent individual rights. To think that there isn't is anathema to everything this country was founded on and what has set our law apart from that of every other nation.