I must have misunderstood when you said you were done. My bad. I agree that the intent of the Constitution is to protect our rights. It doesn’t. But that aside, if I agree that man is the source of my rights then I must accept the notion that man can also take those rights away. I’m more in step with the founders who said that we are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights. I get my rights from God. If you want to continue to fight for your “constitutional” rights, be my guest.
You’re right, I’m not done - this is too unreal for me to leave.
Again, I don’t fight for them. I care for those who do, though, and took an oath to defend the Constitution.
To assert we have no rights under the Constitution is ridiculous. We fought a whole war for independence on the premise that government is essential for the protection of human rights as given by God. In fact, we wrote a whole document declaring that that illegal rebellion was in fact legal…
“We are
endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights…
that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Or did you miss that in junior high school social studies in our Declaration?
“
We, the people…establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.”
Did you never study the Preamble?
WE THE PEOPLE secured those rights so that no one can arbitrarily deny them to us. If you honestly believe you have no Constitutional rights, I can’t help you. You’re wrong, but I can’t help you. The beauty of it is here, because of the Constitution, you can say you have no Constitutional rights. (Oh the irony.) But please, go somewhere without the protection of anything resembling the First Amendment, and exercise your God-given rights.
Go live somewhere without protection. I’ve done it. It’s frightening on multiple levels.
So you’re too chicken to force me but you’re fine with paying someone else to force me
Above our paygrades. Go read the CCC and the Bible - I gave you the verses and paragraphs above.
Don’t like taxes? Don’t pay them, and don’t ever use anything they subsidize. Go off the grid - start by unhooking your Internet, since your taxes subsidize the cost of communications infrastructure.
*corrected a typo pointed out by another poster
