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Wait...I'm Black and female and I do own land. So what does that make me? Free or not free?
We are told we live in a free country. "Land of the free" yada yada yada. Simple question: "Do we live in a free country"?
We are told we live in a free country. "Land of the free" yada yada yada. Simple question: "Do we live in a free country"?
Relatively speaking, absolutely we're free.
But we're definitely parented. And often times we deserve to be.
Regardless of any Constitution or what any founding father might have said, the fundamental purpose of "government" is to maintain a stable society. You can try to control what the government does in the pursuit of that stability, but at the end of the day stability will win. Why? Because the common person would rather compromise a piece of paper and centuries old ideas than watch society collapse around them, losing all the protections it offers them and their loved ones.
So practicality and stability dictates that when members of the society do things that jeopardize--either by single action or precedent--the overall stability, government will step in with regulations. Government grows. The Nanny State grows.
Racism has lead to Nanny State. Bad business practices have lead to Nanny State. Damaging the environment has lead to Nanny State. Bad eating has lead to Nanny State. Irresponsible drug and alcohol use have lead to Nanny State. Even school bullying has lead to Nanny State.
Just like we place restrictions on children who prove irresponsible, government assumes the same role for the same reason: safety and stability.
Your ideas are completely wrong, dangerous, anti-freedom, un-American, and most unfortunately popular among liberals. You are destroying America.
The 10th amendment states, the executive branch and congress only have the powers specifically given to them in the Constitution.
our rights aren't spelled out because it's not granting our rights. The government power IS spelled out and restricted from exceeding.
The final part of the 10th says all other powers are reserved. Not given. Reserved. To the states and/or THE PEOPLE.
When officials exceed there Constitutional powers, they ROB us of rights not named. And it is unconstitutional and illegal for officials to do that.
I do not have the right to keep and bear arms, I do not have the right to privacy, I do not have the right to organize and peacefully protest (see whats happening RIGHT NOW in Ferguson)
No, I'm not free.
Evidently you haven't lost the right to post hyperbolic blather.
The 10th amendment states, the executive branch and congress only have the powers specifically given to them in the Constitution.
our rights aren't spelled out because it's not granting our rights. The government power IS spelled out and restricted from exceeding.
The final part of the 10th says all other powers are reserved. Not given. Reserved. To the states and/or THE PEOPLE.
When officials exceed there Constitutional powers, they ROB us of rights not named. And it is unconstitutional and illegal for officials to do that.
They're not my "ideas".
What I stated is the current state of reality. Regulations are reactionary. Bullying becomes a problem, so there's rules created to protect from it. Banks misbehave and regulations are created to limit them. Corporations act irresponsibly and you get all manner of regulations to control and monitor them.
It even applies to government. If government acts irresponsibly then you get congressional hearings and investigations.
You really can't deny this. It's evident everywhere, at all levels of government and society. Even in the workplace.'ll
As to your insinuation that this is something I support, well- you're right and you're wrong. I absolutely despise the growth of the Nanny State. It's anti-freedom and very anti-liberal, despite your apparent ignorance over what liberalism means. I hate that my elementary school now has a fence around it. I hate that my child might be punished for words he might say. I hate to see our children increasingly sheltered as it hurts their eventual entry into adult society.
But what I hate the most is that the American people have become so irresponsible that such things have become often necessary to maintain social stability. It's that irresponsibility that's lead to the growth of the Nanny State. And worse, we don't learn. If we de-regulate something, people hop right back into the same destructive practices no matter the consequences.
This is why the government always seems to grow- we keep finding new ways to exploit the system to the detriment of others. And so more and more regulations have to be created to keep our actions in check.
They say that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Most people take that to mean that they must remain ever-watchful of a government becoming oppressive. But that's not the source of the problem. What we must remain vigilante of is that we use our freedom wisely; that we don't abuse and exploit it to the harm of others. Because that will inevitably lead to freedoms lost. Eventually the people will demand it.
I actually think you have it backwards. Its the growth of the Nanny state that has made people irresponsible, not the other way around. But I do agree with 99% of your post.
Evidently you haven't lost the right to post hyperbolic blather.
Care to explain how my inability to bear arms is mere hyperbole rather than fact? Or do you only have insults to offer?
Care to explain how my inability to bear arms is mere hyperbole rather than fact? Or do you only have insults to offer?
If that remark is referenced to "Quote Originally Posted by beefheart View PostHowever, they do it anyway.
If that remark is referenced to "Quote Originally Posted by beefheart View Post
"Evidently you haven't lost the right to post hyperbolic blather. "Quote"
Then your ignorance is out of the closet. Put it back.
If instead you are agreeing the government is illegal and by ignoring the 10th amendment has embarked on tyranny as feared by founders, then you are astute.
Bill of Rights
"During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights."
Bill of Rights Transcript Text
Article the eleventh(ratified as 9th)... The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people
Article the twelfth (ratified as 10th)... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What? My response was to your comment "When officials exceed their constitutional powers, they rob us rights not named. And it is unconstitutional and illegal for officials to do so.".
Thanks, so I thought.
I also remarked that they do it anyway...Everyone is always harping on the Federal Government. It is local and State governments that exceed their authority and trample on our constitutional rights on a daily basis.
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