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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Inalienable Rights (was Re: Text of new OCA anti-gay initiative)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.180802.12555@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 18:08:02 GMT
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- In article <C18B2E.47A@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Chaffee) writes:
-
- This is so *absolutely* important that I have to give it all
- again. *Please* read it, it's how American government is
- supposed to work.
-
- >In America (and nowhere else in the world), we are not
- >*afforded* rights by the Constitution. The Constitution
- >does not add rights to those we innately possess, but
- >protects them. It is the people who grant rights to the
- >government, not vice-versa. We give the government the
- >right to build roads; we give the government the right to
- >protect economically the elderly; we give the government the
- >right to fund other nations' development. The government
- >does not *give* us the right to life, liberty, and the
- >pursuit of happiness, but protects those rights, which are
- >considered innate in all human beings.
-
- Thank you.
-
- >Again, it seems semantic, but I believe that the view that
- >we have rights by the grace ofthe government, and not
- >vice-versa, is in part responsible for legislation
- >legalizing bigotry.
-
- At a minimum, those who seek to curtail our rights seem
- determined to use confusion over this issue as the basis for
- their scummy projects.
-
- <> You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and
- <> then pull it out six inches and say you are making progress.
- <> -- Malcolm X
- --
- [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin]
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