Message #3016

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So Clara, it is your contention that our creator(s) did not bestow us with inalienable rights?  That government did?

It is my contention that if any creator bestowed any unalienable rights, humans can't take them away.  The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence can be taken away by government by due process, therefore either the creator is less powerful than human beings or doesn't exist.  The latter is most likely IMHO.

Human rights are granted by the government:  That is the recipe for totalitarianism.

Exactly why cons have succeeded under Gingrich's "permanent majority plan" and why oligarchs again strive to insist on their view of their Divine Right to Rule. Of course it is. What prevents it is checks and balances vs the nonsense about "separation of powers" tommyrot.