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Thread #131738   Message #2975684
Posted By: Slag
30-Aug-10 - 03:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Americans smile at Police Assault
Subject: RE: BS: Americans smile at Police Assault
Art, according to Jefferson and agreed upon by the signers (and also by myself) we have certain "UNALIENABLE rights" which include but are not just limited to life, liberty and the pursuit...etc., and these rights are the endowment of our Creator, or perhaps, if you are so minded, by the impersonable universe at large. The truths and rights are held to be self-evident. That presumably means evident to sane, rational men. You might argue against the latter on the grounds of historical evidence but that is another topic.

We ARE born with these rights but like any right they must be asserted and exercised for them to be a functioning reality. If you don't KNOW your rights, if you don't exercises your rights, you have no rights. And there unfortuantely are a lot of mommas who deny the child the right to have its diapers changed. Talk about silly!

My comments are based on the clip alone as it was the only evidence at hand. Of course there is more to the story and the more FACTUAL evidence that turns up the better off we will all be to make a rational judgment concerning this incident. However the ideals voiced by so many in this thread do reflect our Constitutional understanding and beliefs about this free state of ours.