Over and over I see evidence that the biggest problem most people have with human rights is that they don't stop at "borders". And they really want them to!
Humans all share the exact same rights. It doesn't matter if you call the person "illegal"-- which is an absurd thing to do anyway.
The feral US government is prohibited from violating human rights-- it doesn't matter whose rights it is scheming to violate. Yes, the feral government ignores this prohibition every chance it gets, but that's because it is a criminal gang, not because it has a "right" to violate rights.
But a lot of people get hung up on that fact. They want rights to stop at "borders". They want government to violate the rights of people they don't like. And they'll call you names for pointing out that they are advocating evil. This is my biggest problem with most "pro-gun" people.
Until normal people understand rights it will keep getting easier and easier for criminals to violate those rights. Real criminals, like politicians and legislation enforcers, not fake "criminals" like people who simply walked somewhere without asking a criminal gang for permission.
I am reminded of a Star Trek Episode in witch Capt. Kirk iterated the same thing:
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KIRK: This was not written for chiefs. (general consternation) Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying We the People. That which you call Ee'd Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for all the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, 'We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, 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.' These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!
CLOUD: The Kohms?
KIRK: They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! Do you understand?
It doesn't serve the chiefs to understand.
DeleteSo many people do not understand the "Bill of Rights" these days. It seems an unending chore to repeatedly explain that they do not "grant" any rights to anyone, and instead forbid the government from infringing upon the preexisting Natural Rights of anyone. Nor do any of them say that those rights are only held by "US citizens"; they specifically say "person" or "the people".
ReplyDeleteOf course, I also can't resist pointing out that by the plain wording of the 2nd through 9th amendments, the Bill of Rights do not impose their restrictions solely on the federal government, but should have always been seen as applying to the States as well right from the beginning.
I blame govschooling.
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