I don't want America to become a Theocratic nation like Iran. We are a FREE REPUBLIC! What part of LIFE, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness do Rick Santorum not understand? I agree with David Boaz from the Cato Institute who said, "Rick Santorum openly dislikes the fundamental political idea of America!"
It's no wonder Rick Santorum supports all of the invasion of privacy laws IMPOSED UPON US by both President Bush and President Obama. And to be fair Rick Santorum is not alone, so do Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
It's no wonder Rick Santorum supports all of the invasion of privacy laws IMPOSED UPON US by both President Bush and President Obama. And to be fair Rick Santorum is not alone, so do Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
Rick Santorum said during a recent radio interview, "One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I am aware of, where we've had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture."
[source: Freedom Advocates]
Why do we use the term unalienable instead of inalienable? Inalienable rights are subject to changes in the law such as when property rights are given a back seat to emerging environmental law or free speech rights give way to political correctness. Whereas under the original doctrine of unalienable rights, these rights cannot be abridged.
Webster's 1828 dictionary defines unalienable as "not alienable; that cannot be alienated; that may not be transferred; as in unalienable rights" and inalienable as "cannot be legally or justly alienated or transferred to another."
US Declaration of Independence reads, "... that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
This means that human beings are imbued with unalienable rights which cannot be altered by law whereas inalienable rights are subject to remaking or revocation in accordance with man-made law.
Dr. Ron Paul is an ardent defender of our Constitutional rights. Which by the way also includes Freedom of Religion rights.
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." ~ by Robert Green Ingersoll ♥
"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." ~ Samuel Adams (one of our Founding Fathers) ♥
"But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you – the social reformers – see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them." ~ by Isaiah Berlin ♥
"[The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone -- the right most valued by civilized men." ~ by Justice Louis D. Brandeis ♥
"Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ♥
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