Posted on 03/21/2022 4:28:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At the heart of the debate over COVID-19 restrictions is the distinction between rights and privileges. For most of human history some supreme authority, – a king, a sultan, a class of aristocrats – has presumed to grant to the common people certain privileges. By definition, as privileges, they can be granted, and they can be taken away.
The American concept of liberty is built on something fundamentally different. We do not enjoy privileges. We have rights. They are enshrined in the Constitution, but they are given to us by our Creator. We do not have the right to free speech, because some ‘body of humans’ granted it to us. We were born with it, and it cannot be taken away.
For two years now powerful interests in this country have attempted to change this. They have used all the power at their discretion to convert our rights into privileges that can be taken away whenever the powers that be decide some “emergency” requires it.
The real danger therein is obvious. Once you have enshrined the principle that an “emergency” justifies the revocation of God-given rights, it requires only the declaration of an “emergency” to do it again. And again.
Once this would have seemed the stuff of bad dystopian science fiction. No longer. Now it is as real as it gets.
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) proposed that all Western economies should impose measures to reduce the use of oil. These measures are required to deal with the “emergency” caused by rising fuel prices. They include:
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yes
No, he was released already
Clap trap!
Where has this moron been for the past 60-years?
I think they should have a Broncos jersey buyback for all the foolish fans who spent their money on symbols of wokeness. :)
I was telling some else the other day that I can’t recall the last time I saw anyone in my neck of the woods wearing a jersey, any sport, college or pro.
Note to athletes: If you don’t do something to save yourselves and your sports, nobody else will. Man up, chicks too, before it’s too late.
Yeah but those "Let's Go Brandon" stickers are EVERYWHERE (at least here in Indiana.
I saw that. The initial report I read was on 20th and said that he was admitted Fri the 18th and improving & expected him to be released by the following day (21st). Guess he didn’t improve as quickly as they thought he would.
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