The American Principle of Liberty

[rangerrebew]

April 27, 2018
The American Principle of Liberty
By Robert Curry

It is a remarkable fact, though little noticed, that we no longer conduct our politics in the language of the Founders.  What that means is we no longer think politically in their terms.

Although the American Founding was all about unalienable rights, the phrase "unalienable rights" has gone missing from American politics.  In day-to-day politics, rights are bandied about – civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, but almost never unalienable rights.  "Unalienable rights" has the familiarity and the unfamiliarity of a special item brought out only for special occasions like the 4th of July.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/the_american_principle_of_liberty.html#ixzz5DryHH4XX
 

[INVAR]

Well, according to our resident Commie-Lib-Tyranny-Advocate - there is no such thing as 'Inalienable Rights' - because as he said "All rights are subject to "reasonable regulation" - which means they are simply government-granted privileges that can be regulated to the point that the only way you can exercise your rights, is to receive permission from the government first.

But, sadly - even among Conservatives the principles of American Liberty are dismissed or not agreed to anymore.  We cannot even define it amongst ourselves.

A testament to the fact that the entire foundation of our society is no longer able to support what was intended for us. 

[EasyAce]

We were warned as far back as 1935 . . .

[Bigun]

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

                  Cicero About 2500 years ago

[INVAR]

America could survive treason from government.

What it cannot survive is the millions of idiots and fools who make treasonous government their god.

[GrouchoTex]

"Unalienable rights" is a term that, as explained to me, were rights granted by God.
Since there are less and less people who believe in God, "Unalienable rights", means nothing to them, and removing them is fair game, in their eyes.

[EasyAce]

"Unalienable rights" is a term that, as explained to me, were rights granted by God.
Since there are less and less people who believe in God, "Unalienable rights", means nothing to them, and removing them is fair game, in their eyes.

One of the disgraces we contend with is the fact that, long before today's era, even people who believed in God began to believe concurrently that
the State was or should be the alpha and omega of earthly life, and that if inalienable rights should be compromised or eroded on behalf of the
Greater Good, oh, well. The State in history has also been as often a religious entity as a non-religious one.