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To: H.Akston
The right to life supersedes the right to be secure in one's own person, just as you say property rights supersede free speech.

BTW, the Supreme Court case that invalidated private discriminatory covenants in homeowners associations used just the logic you advocate, that court enforcement of those actions made it a state action and thus unconstitutional.
530 posted on 11/14/2004 9:17:47 AM PST by radicalamericannationalist (The Senate is our new goal: 60 in '06.)
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To: radicalamericannationalist

Who says the right to life supersedes the right to be secure in one's person?

Does the right to life supersede the right to bear arms? I thought all rights in the Bill of Rights were of equal value.

Property rights don't supersede free speech. But the rights of the independent supersede the rights of the dependent. This is the basis for many laws allowing the control of minors by their parents.

Your obnoxious guest can speak in the street. If he needs your house to speak, then he is in a state of dependency. This makes his rights inferior to yours, until his independency is restored, by placing him in the street.

Whoever is dependent, must yield. That is what conservatives say about welfare recipients.


549 posted on 11/14/2004 5:43:33 PM PST by H.Akston (It's all about property rights)
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