Sometimes, I really have to wonder why everyone finds it so amazing that modern Americans have no idea about their Rights.
When journalists who are supposed to be intelligent, educated people write phrases like, and I quote directly from your recent article, "most Americans cannot list the liberties given them under the Constitution", it seems obvious: They are being brainwashed into believing that the Constitution created Rights.
Of course, that is false. The Amendments to the Constitution simply state that there are certain things the government cannot try to take away. Although, they try anyway.
Rights are inherent in every single person. They are not given, or created, or granted. They are as natural to a person as is Life itself. Indeed, Life is listed as a Right in the Declaration of Independence. Does the Declaration of Independence 'give' a person Life? Of course not. The Right to Life exists regardless of any document. The document merely expresses the obvious, for those people, like politicians and the media, who seem to think that Rights only exist when specifically granted by the government.
Rights are natural. Priveleges are granted. Remeber that, because priveleges can be revoked.
The Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, the Right to Free Speech, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, all of these are the natural attributes of a Free People.
The privelege of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the privelege of free speech, the privilege to keep and bear arms, all of these are the mark of slaves and subjects.
I am a Free Citizen, and will always be, because I have natural Rights.
I will never be a subject or slave.
