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One of the common tactics police use to control a crowd they fear will get ugly is to arrest people, knowing as they do so that no one will ever prosecute the arrestee(s). It's questionable, but - they do it.
So you disagree with the concept of inalienable rights?
Who decides what "rights" exist, and which ones are "inalienable"?
Seems to me SOCIETY does.
Yes, we ARE a society of laws. WE elect those who represent us, and WE are supposed to tell them what laws, rules, and regulations WE want. If YOU do not advise your representatives, how are they to know what you want?
Yes, I do write my representatives fairly frequently, to give them my opinions. Yes, I do believe that if enough people tell them what we want, they will listen. If they don't, perhaps enough of us will vote against them that they will have to come home and go to work!
Individual rights to freedom of expression are a fact of life too. I deal with it just fine. Given all your exclamation points and capitalization, you seem to be feeling some distress, and not dealing with it very well.
Ah, yes, the living room psychologist (Dr. Phil?), who knows all about everybody, and dispenses diagnoses with vim and vigor.
INCORRECT diagnoses, more often then not, but oh, well...
By the way, "freedom of expression" is NOT guaranteed in the Constitution of The United States!
No. But this includes things that the older generation of our society finds inappropriate. Short shorts, yoga pants, and hijabs are items of clothing and none should be illegal. Same with t-shirts with the confederate flag and white people with dread locks.
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