Posted on 11/17/2014 3:26:37 AM PST by Enlightened1
Apparently according to a homework sheet being given to our 2nd graders in this country about how to be good citizens, the government *gives* us our rights. Did you know that?
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this federal gub mint needs to be taken down.
This nonsense that our “Rights” do not come from our Creator but government.....
Yep this reminds me of an old 80s song lyrics
“This is what you want... This is what you get... This is what you want get....”
Here is that song...,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSyuhF6eNiY
We live in Alice in Wonderland... Almost everything is upside down.
So now we know that children in public schools are being brainwashed that Rights come from the government and NOT our Creator.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
endowed by their Creator !
For Clarity:
Creator makes man...Man makes states...States makes constitution and federal government...Rights flow in that direction.
The Constitution only lists a few very of the rights we have. Its not meant to be an exhaustive list.
There is the erroneous idea in some circles the Bill Of Rights granted the people rights. To the contrary, it recognized they already had them.
And noted those not specifically mentioned came from the people and where vested in them. In American political thought, our rights do not come from the state - they come from God Himself.
We are free from birth and owe no man a justification for our inherent freedom. Slavery challenged the understanding but did not nullify it.
Government gives us nothing. It can only subtract and rule by force. It had no hold on the human mind and heart and when the exercise of its powers exceed what is granted to it by the people, it ceases to have the consent of the governed.
I guess they’re not teaching the American understanding of the political nature of society in our public school civics classes anymore. This is a dangerous trend.
We must never worship the state. Our only allegiance is to God alone.
Yes to add on to that....
Rights come from God and not Man...
The Bill of Rights Recognizes these UNALIENABLE.
I say it like “UN-A-LEEN-ABLE” meaning NO ONE can put a “lien”, like on a home, on our birth rights from our Creator. Only God can do that and not man.
Great reply and thanks!
I agree with everything you said.
See my post #9 and consider that in addition to what you said.
I understand “Unalienable Rights” to mean that we can’t be alienated from them.
Exactly!
the communists tried to do away with religion cause they wanted the gub mint to be the only one to beleive in and rely on.
PErsonally I like to rely on my own self, not any damned gub mint.
No reading of the Declaration of Independence I see. Might contradict the gov’t doctrine.
This travesty is no mistake or accident. It is entirely intention on the part of the Statists whom we elected to public office. When will we ever learn???
The functions of objects and animal life throughout the Universe presents sets of formula of what works and what does not.
These functions are templates that are applied to human nature and society. To fight against these templates of the Universe might work on a short term, maybe, but will always fail long term.
One example is fight or flight. All life has the RIGHT to either defend itself (2nd amendment) or escape instead.
Get that curriculum changed immediately and/or pull your children out. Yesterday.
In the beginning, there was government. Through government, all things were made; without government nothing was made that has been made . . . .
Except for the possibility that the right of due process is a "granted" right the list of rights granted by the Constitution remains at ZERO.
I have often thought if the preamble for the Bill of Rights were more widely known many of these discussions would be unnecessary.
"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”
There are two more short procedural sections but this was the meat of it. Does not "declaratory and restrictive" make the intentions of the Bill of Rights clear? Now the Government's role and my role as citizen both seem clear. As long as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are intact, I will remain a citizen and not a subject. How could I ask it to be better?
The Bill of Rights did not grant citizens’ rights. The Bill of Rights protects citizens’ rights from government interference.
Teacher’s basically have their hands tied and cannot explain UNALIENABLE rights and how they come from God, not the government, because the teachers are not allowed to mention God in the classroom. In many cases they risk being fired if they do mention God.
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