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To: Richard-SIA
"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.

But oddly enough, you've been taking the position on this thread consistent with judicial activism. In finding that right to privacy listed nowhere in the Constitution, the judges were able to use it to say that states can't prohibit abortion.

There's nothing preventing them from a new constitutional right for you. Let's call it the constitutional right to safety.

They can then use that right to impose a duty on the state to do something in order to protect you. Pick your poison, mandatory identification requirements, travel restrictions, whatever they want.

THAT's what's dangerous about finding new constitutional rights for you. They're used in efforts to take away your other rights.

88 posted on 01/15/2006 12:51:32 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

I find the abortion arguments irrelevant distractions, the emotionalism they engender gets in the way of rational thought.

No "Judicial Activism" is needed to recognize our right to privacy merely because it is "unenumerated".

Under the Ninth Amendment all unenumerated rights are intended to be equal to the few enumerated rights.

Let me put it this way, We have the right to do any thing we please that is not specifically illegal!
This is a major difference between the American philosophy and most of the rest of the world.
In the regimes of Europe and the East people can only do what is expressly allowed.
It may even be THE major factor underlying the European, Eastern, and Islamo-facist hatred of us.
Their jealousy of our freedom is not a reason for us to surrender any of that freedom.

I will stand by our right to privacy, no matter what elegant or brutal argument is made against it, it is conceivable that I may die to defend it.

If your fear is that other unenumerated rights may become common, it would appear that you fear "too much liberty".

Clearly we are not going to settle this, I will continue to know that we DO have a right to privacy, without undo worry that our liberties are going to be further restricted in the name of "new rights".

It has been my observation that Gov. Org. already has plenty of pretext to diminish our existing rights without resorting to such arcane ruses.


92 posted on 01/15/2006 1:22:56 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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