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To: Richard-SIA
Don't get hung up in the semantics. Your "constitutional rights" are those rights you have which are recognized and protected by the Constitution. You'd be hard-pressed to assert the same rights protected by the First Amendment if it never existed and you were instead asserting them under the Ninth.

If you're asserting that the Ninth Amendment is the source of your federally-recognized constitutional right to privacy, then you had better be prepared for the Court to use it as the basis to issue all kinds of amendments to the Constitution by judicial fiat.

79 posted on 01/15/2006 12:07:26 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

I am disgusted enough with what has been done to our rights since the founding of this country to recognize that in all reality we now have virtually no rights at all, enumerated or not!

We now have only those limited rights we can afford to defend in court, our own wallet against the Gov. Org.'s unlimited funds.

The continuing dismissal of our rights, enumerated or not, as being merely "policy", subject to denial or reinterpretation at Gov. whim, is beyond contempt!

"Judges" engaging in judicial activism and spouting personal ideology to support their treasonous attacks on our liberties may succeed in reducing our rights to nothing, but that does not make them right.

People idly talk about the fall of our republic, overbearing Gov. breaking faith with it's own basic tenets is the most likely source of that fall.
Denying that U.S. Citizens have a right to privacy is certainly a concrete step toward the totalitarianism that will eventually destroy this country.

This also explains why so many in Gov. are working so hard to reinterpret our RKBA in a manner to diminish and destroy it.


84 posted on 01/15/2006 12:40:04 PM PST by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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To: Dog Gone

I am disgusted enough with what has been done to our rights since the founding of this country to recognize that in all reality we now have virtually no rights at all, enumerated or not!

We now have only those limited rights we can afford to defend in court, our own wallet against the Gov. Org.'s unlimited funds.

The continuing dismissal of our rights, enumerated or not, as being merely "policy", subject to denial or reinterpretation at Gov. whim, is beyond contempt!

"Judges" engaging in judicial activism and spouting personal ideology to support their treasonous attacks on our liberties may succeed in reducing our rights to nothing, but that does not make them right.

People idly talk about the fall of our republic, overbearing Gov. breaking faith with it's own basic tenets is the most likely source of that fall.
Denying that U.S. Citizens have a right to privacy is certainly a concrete step toward the totalitarianism that will eventually destroy this country.

This also explains why so many in Gov. are working so hard to reinterpret our RKBA in a manner to diminish and destroy it.


85 posted on 01/15/2006 12:40:04 PM PST by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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