To: Loud Mime
Government can grant rights within a legalistic framework; its their laws and their power to exercise.
This is the Liberal viewpoint...oft stated publicly by the likes of Obama, and John Kerry.
Any Conservative worth his salt will tell you exactly the opposite. We are not the government's subjects, for it to grant and remove rights as it sees fit. Those rights are embedded in our own humanity.
12 posted on
07/30/2009 5:35:57 AM PDT by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: bamahead
Government can grant rights within a legalistic framework; its their laws and their power to exercise. This is the Liberal viewpoint...oft stated publicly by the likes of Obama, and John Kerry.
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It depends on the laws enacted and power exercised, doesn't it?
19 posted on
07/30/2009 5:56:26 AM PDT by
Loud Mime
(More government jobs and benefits and more unemployment sets the stage for real disaster)
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