I'm not talking about absolute power of any kind. I'm just objecting to rendering the word "right" useless by adding any whim of any whiney journalist to the list of rights.
The right to indulge a whim (that violates nobody's rights) is just as much a right as the right to free speech.
I have no right to take vitamins.
I have no right to privacy.
I have no right to wear paisleys.
I have no right to pick my nose.
I have no right to see the Jackass movie.
I have no right to have chocolate cake for breakfast.
I have no right to be annoying.
I have no right to purchase and consume filet mignon.
All of this because the majority, in their pompous royalty, simply felt like throwing their weight around.
But I do have the right to eat food, simply becuse if I don't I'll die (and dead people don't obey orders or pay taxes). Presumably if a way was found to stay alive and not eat, that could be prohibited too.
And yet I'm supposed to believe this is freedom, even worthy of sacrificing my life for? That's funny. I wouldn't give a used hanky for a country that held such contempt for my freedom.