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To: H.Akston
I sure am glad the Bill of Rights is not a list of divinely granted rights.

I must strongly disagree.

THE BOR is a "partial list of DIVINELY GRANTED RIGHTS granted by our Lord" that predated man and our nation.

No piece of paper written by man "grants" anything. Our BOR just lists what is already ours.

And sad to say, God granted, IMO, those same rights to Binny,
although he has abused his rights and Binny will have to pay for this abuse.

OBTW, Binny has escaped through Pakistan and we won't catch him anytime soon.The NWO has a need for him.

Take care,
CATO

610 posted on 12/19/2001 12:15:42 PM PST by Cato
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To: Cato
I must strongly disagree.

THE BOR is a "partial list of DIVINELY GRANTED RIGHTS granted by our Lord" that predated man and our nation.

Where did you quote that from pray tell?
I'm not so sure that God granted me the right to bear arms, or to not have troops quartered in my house without my consent. Most of those rights in the BoR come from our [secular] belief as a people in popular and individual sovereignty over the Government, not from God. The rights of life, liberty and property come from God, as he told us not to kill, tyrannize or steal, respectively. But I have a hard time believing that God granted me a right to a speedy trial. I don't think the government granted us those rights, either, but the original people of the United States did, since we are their posterity.

No piece of paper written by man "grants" anything. Our BOR just lists what is already ours.

The Bill of Rights was made possible by the force of arms our Revolutionary War ancestors used against the British. The rights might be there all along, but without superior force on the side of right, they will be taken away. You could say that the prevention of a taking is not a granting, but we'd be getting kind of semantical.

And sad to say, God granted, IMO, those same rights to Binny, although he has abused his rights and Binny will have to pay for this abuse.

Sure, even Binny has unalienable rights. That's probably why we don't do assassinations - we've recognized that we shouldn't murder. But we do have a right to self defense, as you surely agree.

OBTW, Binny has escaped through Pakistan and we won't catch him anytime soon.The NWO has a need for him.

Take care,
CATO

The new order for the ages was established in 1789 when the realization that liberty and constitutional government was superior to all other forms, came upon the people of the United States. I sort of like the old new order. Let's deconstruct Reconstruction, which was a damaging assault on constitutional government, and get it back.

611 posted on 12/19/2001 2:38:43 PM PST by H.Akston
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