Posted on 02/21/2011 9:12:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Our rights come from God. Those rights preceded and supercede any constitution or man-made law. The founders of this republic understood this very, very well.
And, they understood explicitly that the raison d'être, or reason for being, of ALL human government is to protect those rights.
"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..."
That is the basis for our form of government and our claim to liberty. I'm very sorry that you, and politicians like Sarah Palin, are disconnected from what the founders called "self-evident," or, to use the modern vernacular, "as plain as the nose on your face."
You're never behind when you're reasserting America's most important foundational principles.
You’re losing it. Just because you cannot answer the most fundamental questions that have to do with republican self-governance, in the American sense of those words.
Sarah Palin is your plumb line, not the God-given natural law, not the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and not the U.S. Constitution. It’s very sad, but a vivid demonstration of what the combination of unprincipled leadership and unthinking, unprincipled followership can produce.
....”You’re never behind when you’re reasserting America’s most important foundational principles.”....
According to who’s talking points? Ron or Rand?
By the way, I don’t expect perfection. Just adherence to the simple requirements of the oath of office to protect the life, liberty and property of the people. All the people.
You pontificate about caring about the unborn and insult those here and born who don't agree with you??? You should learn a bit about respecting others and following the golden rule.
Sadly people like you may get your wish and have all rights flow from a central Federal Government... and NO Virginia they aren't Santa Claus and they can decide that your rights are NOT inalienable and do NOT flow from God!
I fully realize from whence our rights flow, I am also a realist and can discern that those self same rights are in dire jeopardy by the self same Feds that are sworn to protect them.
So... what are we left with? We "punt" to the States... and the States can protect what the Feds have chosen to destroy.
I don't support the Pauls. In fact, Sarah Palin stands in perfect agreement with them, and John McCain, that states' "rights" trump the unalienable right to life.
Although, there are some signs that the new Senator is starting to get it, finally. We'll see.
I like it!
....”I don’t support the Pauls. In fact, Sarah Palin stands in perfect agreement with them,”....
NOW I REALLY am laughing. You owe me a new keyboard dude.
I don't. All I have to go by is your words in your post. And your claims are ludicrous. States' rights do NOT supercede the God-given, unalienable rights of the people.
All officers of government, at every level and in every branch, have a sworn duty to protect the unalienable rights of every person within their jurisdiction.
To claim otherwise is destroy the very basis for this free republic and for our claim to liberty.
Thank you... I pray for this country... God has blessed us with so much and there are many good people who are incapable of seeing the forest for the trees in the quest to protect what He has given to us.
Why are you laughing? Palin and the Pauls have been primary proponents of the idea that the unalienable right to life can be left up to the states to decide.
This is the exact moral equivalent of the Stephen A. Douglas Democrat position on slavery in the 1850s, and the exact same position that Gerald R. Ford took on abortion in the 1970s.
It is one hundred and eighty degrees opposite of the Ronald Reagan personhood of the child, Fourteenth Amendment position; a plank that still resides in the Republican platform to this day.
“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...” — The Declaration of Independence
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” — The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.” — The Fifth Amendment
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” — The Fourteenth Amendment
“The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a ‘person’ within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.” — Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973
“You shall not murder.” — Exodus 20:13
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” — Thomas Jefferson
Good night.
I admire your ideals, but ideals can get us all killed if they are not backed up with the hard cold reality of the fight we are facing. Trusting as per your words: "All officers of government, at every level and in every branch, have a sworn duty to protect the unalienable rights of every person within their jurisdiction." is folly, as those you are trusting are fallible. And I must say that fallibility has never been more evident than in these times!
I use to wonder how the good people of Germany could follow a monster like Hitler. Recent events in this country (the image of Pelosi and friends marching through the square with the large gavel come to mind) have answered this for me. Our educational system has been nothing but a propaganda tool for so long, it has spawned new generations of voters who have absolutely no idea of what you speak of when it comes to inalienable rights.
We are faced with taking things back to the local level so that families can reassert their values and patriots can reassert their true understanding of basic AMERICAN principles of freedom.
Your evaluation of the cold reality we face seems to be "go with the flow" after all, the public servants have promised to protect our "inalienable" rights. Do you really trust this?
That’s all ignorant nonsense. The people who are actually fighting on EVERY front, including at the state level, are the personhood people. Politicians who take a pro-choice for states position just don’t show up out in the trenches at all. I know from experience this is true. Primarily because their position is nothing more than political cover. It’s not in any way a serious pro-life position. It can’t be, because it destroys the only moral, constitutional and legal arguments there are against the practice of child-murder.
Sir/madam... I beg to differ. The ignorance is on your side. Respectfully, you have not a clue as to what is truly happening in this country. You sir/madam are living in a little glass bubble, refusing to believe what others are trying to alert you to. This has nothing to do with who the next GOP candidate will be, it has everything to do with understanding the reality on the ground.
If you're right, there is no hope left for this country.
If I'm right, and enough people come to agree with me, we'll set the country back on its original basis. And we'll stop the rivers of innocent blood that have been flowing for thirty-eight years.
You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
I have close friends and associates in all fifty states, who are active on virtually every front in the battle to save our country.
Now.. did you just cut and paste my comment so as to make it say something other than what I said? I think you did. I quoted what you said and said that it was folly for you to trust these self same sworn officers of government to protect your rights... did I not? You then cut my comment to look as if I said their worn duty to protect is folly. That is not my comment and you sir/madam are a liar.
So I was just imagining it last year when Governor Sarah Palin campaigned for all those conservative candidates? She wasn’t “in the trenches” like you and your “personhood” team? I need to go back and re-research the 2010 election it would seem. You folks were the ones who took back the House, right?
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