It is clear too many people do not understand what rights are. It may be debated whether the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the only "rights" granted by the created, but I believe our founding fathers who have shown themselves to be far wiser than any of our current batch of representatives could ever hope to be had a good handle on it.
They understood that first and foremost rights are something granted by God. Second, rights are not something that require action on other people's parts. All that rights require from others is inaction. It is not up to others to make sure we are happy. It is not up to others to make sure we have life. It is also not up to others to make sure that we are at liberty. All any of these rights require is that others do not take action to take away our liberty. If they take no action against us we will be at liberty. If they take no action they will in no way interfere with our happiness. If others take no action attacking us or trying to take our lives then we will have life so long as we are healthy.
It is not up to others to make sure we are healthy. It is not up to others to make sure we are free. It is incumbent on them to make sure they do not take our free. In this they are restricted. Again it should be note that our rights if anything put restrictions on others to prevent them from interfering. They do not put restrictions or obligations on others to take action.
Our rights never put obligations on others to act. The only obligation inflicted on others for us to maintain our rights is the obligation of inaction.
Today we have a government that feels that they give us rights not our create. In many cases the do not even recognize the creator. They are as determined as possible to make sure that the creator is never mentioned. Here they are again taking action and thus interfering with our right to freedom of religion.
The constitution in no way binds the hands of the federal government or employees thereof from mentioning God, Jesus Christ, or even the more generic creator. This in no way indicates the government forcing religion on us. What the constitution says is that CONGRESS shall pass no laws. Yet this is exactly what they constantly do, pass laws preventing the free exercise of religion in any venue where there might even be a federal employee present. This is not what the constitution ever meant! It also never meant for the government to be forced to provide churches for the people or to pass laws forcing such a thing. The constitution simply prohibits them from passing laws regarding religion. This is a very important distinction and one that is all too often disregarded.
It is very similar with guns. We are too busy looking at people's motives where guns are concerned; what they might do with this freedom or what they might do with the guns as though what they did with the right is enough of a reason to interfere with it.
The left especially seems to feel their right is to inflict upon us to be responsible for everyone else's decisions instead of just letting people be responsible for themselves. It is not my responsibility or anyone else's responsibility to make sure I make what they consider good choices. The only exception to this would be children, in which case it is the responsibility of the parents to train up their children to be responsible for the decisions they make as well as to own the consequences of those decisions. The consequences of our decisions should be the responsibility of others to bear.
The government would have us believe this and because of this they understand "rights" to mean that we are obligated to take care of those who make bad decisions and are now suffering the consequences of those decisions. Compassion demands this, but the government cannot and should not put such a demand on us.
We must begin to bear the responsibility of our own choices and actions. We must, as they say, man up! We must put government back in the box it was meant to be in even if it means that something maybe be a bit harder on us. I for one would rather have things a little harder and have my freedom than having someone tell me what I can eat, whether I can smoke or grow a certain tree in my yard or add another house on my own property because some snail lives there.
We the people must stop the madness. We must remember that in the United States the government only governs by the consent of the people and we CAN withdraw our consent and get rid of these people.
Can anyone honestly say that Barbara boxer, Lynn Woolsey, Dianne Feinstein or any of the many other representatives we have in California have actually done even a sufficient enough job that should have voted them back in office. We need to find new people who actually will protect our freedoms not erode them in the name of some false compassion. They find it very easy to be compassionate with OUR money!
Enough I say!
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