Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Southack
There were thousands of driving laws, yet Nazis could still drive. There were hundreds of drinking laws, yet Nazis could still drink. There were scores of security laws, yet Nazis could still purchase stocks. There were myriad property laws, yet Nazis could still buy and sell land. Replace Nazi with Soviet or any other represive regime.

Each law that does not protect your life, liberty, or property, is a specific infringement on liberty. And likewise the government being granted the right to infringe on your life, liberty, and property is a loss of liberty. The idea that you are free if in order to obtain that freedom you must get a license is strange. Freedom does not mean seeking permission or avoiding using your freedom in a manner which does not violate the life, liberty, or property of another person. You can say a slave is free, so long as he did his masters bidding, but I would object to misuse of the term free.
335 posted on 01/30/2002 9:30:56 PM PST by verboten
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 325 | View Replies ]


To: verboten
"There were thousands of driving laws, yet Nazis could still drive. There were hundreds of drinking laws, yet Nazis could still drink. There were scores of security laws, yet Nazis could still purchase stocks. There were myriad property laws, yet Nazis could still buy and sell land. Replace Nazi with Soviet or any other represive regime. Each law that does not protect your life, liberty, or property, is a specific infringement on liberty."

Well, you win the prize for the flaming non sequitor of the day.

Not all Germans could drive. Jews had their permission to drive revoked. Jews had their rights to own private property revoked. They literally had rights denied to them, including the loss of their lives.

In contrast, you've managed to avoid admitting the obvious: you haven't been denied a single right.

Either admit that fact or produce evidence to the contrary, but posting more non sequitors won't cut it.

338 posted on 01/30/2002 9:40:16 PM PST by Southack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 335 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson