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To: Gondring
Why can’t those who want to ignore the rights of these women go to some banana republic where they can live their little fantasy,

That would be the cult themselves. Tell me about those women and children's Constitutional rights and how they've been able to exercise them all their lives.

188 posted on 04/14/2008 4:59:55 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Tell me about those women and children's Constitutional rights and how they've been able to exercise them all their lives.

You clearly do not understand the nature of Constitutional rights. They are restraints on *government* action, not private. The one exception, kinda-sorta, would be the right not be held as slave. But even that not really a Constitutional right, in the sense that the Constitution forbids private individuals from holding slaves. What does that is the laws, both common and statute, that forbid holding a person against their will. It's just that if the government is allowed to sanction slavery or enforce involuntary servitude, then those law have what ammounts to a big loophole for the slave class (which aren't always of a minority race as they hisotrically were in the US). The Constitition bans slavery and involuntary servitude, and thus the laws against detaining someone against their will apply regardless of the status of the detainee, except of course if the deprivation of liberty is via government and then only if it was via due process.

Due Process is what some of us are worried about.

446 posted on 04/14/2008 4:53:32 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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