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It's called the truth. Look for it instead of making things up
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If you were female, black or gay, you would say otherwise.
Because females, blacks, and gays are all the same and don't act as individuals?
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All have gotten rights long denied by both individuals and the government earlier on.
Because of the tyrannical big government YOU love, their rights were not protected. That's one of the roles of government, to protect rights,
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The government does give and does take away.
Government does not grant rights. Government defines those rights in order to protect them. That's their job. The individual at birth receives those rights. Thinking otherwise is mind boggling.
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Someone gets something from someone who just got something taken away.
It's called the truth. Look for it instead of making things up
You claimed it. You prove it.
[/quote]Because females, blacks, and gays are all the same and don't act as individuals?[/quote]
No. Because none are afforded the same degree of rights as white males. Everyone is an individual, and everyone acts as they want.
[/quote] Because of the tyrannical big government YOU love, their rights were not protected. That's one of the roles of government, to protect rights,[/quote]
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (Dr. Martin Luther King)
Government does need to protect everyone's rights. Protecting the same rights for all, to the same degree, is NOT tyranny. It is Liberty and Justice For All. No matter how big or small the government is.
And do not presume I am a lover of big government because I disagree with you. That's nothing but dog crap your tracking up the house with. It's not my fault you were barefoot when you stepped in it.
Failure to do so resulted in Southern apartheid for a century after the Civil War. Declarations of freedom mean nothing without protection, and in our long period of apartheid, a minority of one race removed the freedoms of another race with impunity.
[/quote]Government does not grant rights. Government defines those rights in order to protect them.
That's their job. The individual at birth receives those rights. Thinking otherwise is mind boggling.[/quote]
Civil rights have been re-defined many times since the Constitution was written. That is indeed the job of the Union. A child of a gay couple currently does not have the right of legal legitimacy everywhere in the United States at present. So, for this child, if born in the wrong state, some rights are not received at birth, while another child is granted them.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” (another quote from MLK)
[/quote]This statement makes no sense.[/quote]
I'll put it another way. When someone's rights are denied, someone else took them away. That is your own reasoning.
You get your rights as an individual, not by being an American.
Government takes away rights, they do not grant rights.
You do but you don't. If you live out in an unclaimed land that is not a part of a country, you have all the rights you want. However they aren't protected. Maybe people move in and then you can't just tell them to move to the area you didn't gate off as well as need to realize that your actions have consequences. Maybe you farmed naked and polluted the lake without thinking. Now others need to use it and may be offended by your nakedness.
The fact is government don't take rights away, it's society that does. Society said that it is legal to own slaves and so slavery was legal. Equal voting rights weren't allowed because society didn't want women and blacks to vote because they weren't smart enough. Separate but equal was around for blacks and still for gays because society deems it immoral. Government only limits rights as it is society's tool.
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Sez you. If you were female, black or gay, you would say otherwise. All have gotten rights long denied by both individuals and the government earlier on. The government does give and does take away. Someone gets something from someone who just got something taken away.
Exactly, it depends on what society says is what the people want. Government is the tool for this. Sometimes government does things against the will of the people but, it is the choice of at least some people. Think of it this way, separate but equal laws wouldn't exist if most whites really wanted to treat blacks as the same.
Instead of the freedom and liberty to make the change or not, the change government wants, is done by force with the threat of violence and even death.
Instead of the freedom and liberty to make the change or not, the change government wants, is done by force with the threat of violence and even death.
That is because some people say "We don't want to give up our freedom to allow others to not have their's." Remember Gov. Wallace in Alabama "standing up" to national pressure both media wise and politically because he thought that blacks should stay second class citizens? That is just as evil, if not more than what you were stating.
That is because some people say "We don't want to give up our freedom to allow others to not have their's." Remember Gov. Wallace in Alabama "standing up" to national pressure both media wise and politically because he thought that blacks should stay second class citizens? That is just as evil, if not more than what you were stating.
When attacked, one better have the means and the ability to fight back, or be made slaves.
Ask Moses and the whiteman that was enslaved for 2000 years by the black man.
It took an act of God to free them. It took the act of a whiteman to free the blackman held in slavery for 500 years.
Slavery is alive and doing well today. Right here in the good `ol USA. And there is no color of skin placed upon it.
When there is no Jesus in their life, all they have left is violence and murder.
We can certainly learn from the respect the right shows to President Obama. It's like shooting ducks in a barrel with conservatives. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
No. Because none are afforded the same degree of rights as white males. Everyone is an individual, and everyone acts as they want.
Government didn't protect their rights
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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (Dr. Martin Luther King)
Agreed one always has to right for their rights. Government tries to take them away
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Government does need to protect everyone's rights. Protecting the same rights for all, to the same degree, is NOT tyranny. It is Liberty and Justice For All. No matter how big or small the government is.
Yes government does need to protect rights. That's their job
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And do not presume I am a lover of big government because I disagree with you. That's nothing but dog crap your tracking up the house with. It's not my fault you were barefoot when you stepped in it.
lol what a horrible analogy
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Failure to do so resulted in Southern apartheid for a century after the Civil War. Declarations of freedom mean nothing without protection, and in our long period of apartheid, a minority of one race removed the freedoms of another race with impunity.
Agreed and that was governments fault
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Civil rights have been re-defined many times since the Constitution was written. That is indeed the job of the Union. A child of a gay couple currently does not have the right of legal legitimacy everywhere in the United States at present. So, for this child, if born in the wrong state, some rights are not received at birth, while another child is granted them.
What do you mean by legal legitimacy? What do you mean by civil rights have been redefined?
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I'll put it another way. When someone's rights are denied, someone else took them away. That is your own reasoning.
More than likely government. At the very least government didn't do their job by protecting the rights of the individual
The GOP played the "moderate" game the last two elections and they lost both of them. I'd say, if you fail twice using the same strategy its time to change it.
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