You act as if the left doesn't whine and pout about cases it disagrees with. Citizens United anybody? I'm still trying to decipher what cases I've supposedly been haranguing about though. I've repeatedly said SCOTUS is and has been firmly on my side . . . The lower federal decisions that begat the "collective right" theories have been invalidated so besides stating that, where have I cried and gnashed teeth?
Not my statements. Why have you brought them up multiple times now?
I must ask though, isn't Dred Scott universally accepted by all, left and right, as a despicable, horrible and yes, illegitimate decision?
No. Even if I did I only reply to the words I quote or that are spoken to me; I don't go off and assign positions to the person I'm replying to, that others on the board stake out,. What's the value in that? It's obvious you find it impossible but try to just reply to that person . . .
My position is that the mention in the DoI about a "Creator" wasn't a theological statement, it was a political one establishing that rights are inherent. It doesn't matter where one believes rights originate from, just as long as you don't think government gives them to us.
It doesn't matter if you don't buy into that. It doesn't matter if your think it is the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard. I can guaranfuckentee whatever political ideology you latch on to wasn't around when the founders and framers were pouring over political treatises. Marx wasn't a founding father.
Whether you like it or believe in it, the government of the US is contractually bound to treat the rights of the citizen as inherent and not granted, given, created or established by government. It's like a pacifist being against violence and shunning weapons but being protected by citizens with weapons willing to do violence on their behalf.
It really just comes down to who gives a fuck what leftist contrarians and naysayers think?
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