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Where I come from, they have a term for this ... it's called 'weaseling'.


Clearly, you are getting your information from a single perspective - one that is convenient to what you wish to say.


But, I will take a single instance to prove you wrong ..


"... the rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" are not unalienable, they are subject to law."


You have missed the whole concept. The purpose of laws is not to dictate your rights, but to define the manner in which those rights may be exercised. There is not a single right denied by the Constitution. However, there are several laws that define the way in which you seek 'life, liberty, ....".


Let me be, apparently, the first to educate you. You are allowed to do anything - absolutely anything - in this world that you desire ... providing, of course, that when you do it, you do not interfere with the rights of others. The popular colloquialism "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" exactly captures the intent, and content, of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Think of it this way .... you live in a box ... inside that box, you can do whatever you damn well please ... as long as what you do doesn't affect my box.


The government was intended to manage the interfaces between those boxes ... where collisions would inevitably occur, the government was supposed to determine a fair and equitable solution ... not a winner, but a compromise.


That is the INTENT ... it has been subverted by people who believe they know better, and people who believe that they somehow have license to impose their perception of right on others ... people like you, frankly. We have a whole political class who believe they know better, and that "the citizenry should just shut up and do what they're told, because after all, we know best, and we have their best interests in mind."


You are seeing the people wake up and realize just how far into their box you've gotten, and they are starting to push back. The Tea Party is an example of that ... just as the Posse Commitatus movement is a more extremist view; not in intent, but in methodology. There are those of us standing up and yelling ... "Stay the hell out of my box."


It will be a long and drawn-out battle ... but, in the end, the people will win.


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