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Thread #152016   Message #3553927
Posted By: Rapparee
28-Aug-13 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Rights and Freedoms - Gone?
Subject: RE: BS: Rights and Freedoms - Gone?
Or you can do what Osama bin Laden did -- use couriers. Couriers worked well for the Wehrmacht in December, 1944, too -- the Allies ignored the reports from the front lines and since there were no Enigma intercepts, well, that fight in the Ardennes came as a surprise (yes, I know, there was more to it than just those things). You could even become a Booklegger!

In the US you still have the Right to travel freely. This does not mean that you have a Right to drive, use an airplane or a train, etc. -- but "they" can't stop you from going where you want to go unless you're locked up for some reason. No internal passports, no paperwork. Have a nice walk.

Quite honestly, I don't think you have a "Right" to anything at all. These are granted by your society. Come between a grizzly and her cub -- who has the greater "Right", you or the griz? The griz can outrun you and rip you to shred. Her "society" says "protect our young", yours says that you have the "Right" to live.

For most of human history the greatest number of population lived in ignorance, poverty, and long unremitting labor. Might made right, and you were as likely to die of tuberculosis or typhoid as you were to be nonchalantly speared by some passing soldiers. "Rights" evolved in the 18th Century, the "Age of Enlightenment" and in many, many places even today you have the "Right" to work, pay the bosses, die for them, and shut the f**k up the rest of the time.