@RexRed,
RexRed wrote:We have the absolute right to protest,
Yes. I support the First Amendment almost as much as the Second one.
RexRed wrote:(that is unless the government denies your permit)
In my youth, we protested many times.
I dont believe that we ever had a "permit."
RexRed wrote:We have the absolute right to privacy,
No. If u appear in public,
then everyone can see u; no privacy.
RexRed wrote:(that is unless a judge give the spy agencies a warrant to wiretap your phone)
Yea. See the 4th Amendment.
RexRed wrote:We have the absolute right to own land,
No. If that were true,
then every bum in the streets wud become a landowner.
RexRed wrote:(that is unless the government decides to run a railroad through your property)
I have always
despised
and
opposed government 's "power of eminent domain."
The victim of this has a Constitutional Right to
fair compensation for it.
If it were up to
ME, government wud have
NO power of "eminent domain."
RexRed wrote:We have the absolute right to a fair trial
That 's
not true.
What if the D.A.
refuses to prosecute???
RexRed wrote:(that in unless the government declares you an enemy combatant)
Not if u r a citizen
and u remain inside America.
RexRed wrote:What exactly gives the government the right to trump these rights?
Government has
NO RIGHTS.
It only has authority.
RexRed wrote:Answer:
The fundamental right to "the pursuit of happiness".
No. Government has
NEVER raised that allegation
to justify any of its intrusions upon the Individual citizen.
That statement is
false, and it has no merit.
U cannot prove otherwise.
RexRed wrote:How can happiness be pursued
when tea party gun crazies are "fondling their guns"
Ez; all kinds of ways,
Rex, e.g., going to good restaurants for fine meals,
going to Walt Disney World, going to Las Vegas,
going on any fine quality vacation, regardless of any gun fondling.
No harm in that.
RexRed wrote:and exposing them to people in a threatening manner
without regard to the rule of law?
No. That is "brandishing".
In my current State, Florida, there is a ten year prison term
for "brandishing." I have never advocated doing that.
RexRed wrote:David you are simply wrong and nothing in this world
will get that through your thick, numb-skull head...
Rex, it is my position that each citizen
has the Natural Right and the Constitutional Right to defend himself
from the predatory violence of man or beast.
There is nothing "simply wrong" with that.
David