Neanderpundit

never before in my commute have I had to scream “IT IS NOT NECESARY TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP TO CHANGE LANES” I mean, I can understand if you’re about to miss your turn, but this woman stopped, looked over her shoulder and waited until someone let her in, and moved slowly over and proceeded down the road in the other lane.

DWA again.

At the basis of human rights, Locke said, were the rights to Life and liberty, or as he said, free life. If I recall correctly there was also “property”.

If these are the “Natural human rights”, and it’s easily arguable that they are, then other human rights must all derive from them. The natural derivatives, it can be argued, are those rights that follow from the “Free life” idea. A classic example is “Self defense”. The right to self defense is not just natural, it’s damned near impossible to stop- someone smacks you, you’re going to smack back. The right to use firearms for self defense is not a “Natural” right because firearms are merely tools. Nobody unless they dismember you can take away your right to self defense, but they can remove from you your ability to defend yourself from someone stronger or from more people or bigger animals. The firearm is a tool that allows you the freedom to defend yourself.

There are a number of people- a minority, but a vocal one- that feel that they can only be safe if they remove the tools of self defense from others, and are anxious to use the power of the Federal Government to do so. There is no reason behind what they do, only fear and rancor at people who dare to be free.

From conversation with Pascal:

Pascal: but their numbers are so small, and their concerns so trivial, that it would not be even considered were those who pretend to represent us were not up to no good

Once again:If these are the “Natural human rights”, and it’s easily arguable that they are, then other human rights must all derive from them. The natural derivatives, it can be argued, are those rights that follow from the “Free life” idea. A classic example is ‘Freedom of worship” The right to worship as you please- or not, for that matter- like self defense, doesnt’ require any tools, though the Church allows an amplification of what a single individual can do. Nobody, unless they kill you, can take away your right to worship, but they can remove from you your ability to gather with like minded people to worship together. The church is a tool that allows you increased ability to defend your world against the evil that exists in it.

There are a number of people- a minority, but a vocal one- that feel that they can only be safe if they remove the freedom of worship from others, and are anxious to use the power of the Federal Government to do so. There is no reason behind what they do, only fear and rancor at people who dare to be free.

From conversation with Pascal:

Pascal: but their numbers are so small, and their concerns so trivial, that it would not be even considered were those who pretend to represent us were not up to no good

And I’m constantly crazy to think that any of this is happening, though the evidence of it is everywhere. And I am alone in my suspicions, which further indicates my krazy! The media won’t report the ugliness but there is a lot of it.

If any of this were happening in re- guns, for instance, the Freedom crowd sits up and takes notice. Let a praying archbishop be attacked, though, and it’s a non issue. ‘Those Catholics. Theyre all pedophiles anyway. They deserve to be taken down a notch. All those links, are churchy people, and they are judgemental. Fuck them. Who are they to judge? Who are they to tell those nice gay couples what to do?

We’re not. We’re fighting for our freedom. We do not care what gays do, at all. If the gays can find a church that will marry them, thats awesome. If they need the rights of survivorship, or any other legal right, they should get them

They break my leg, to coin a phrase, because they damage my ability to worship as I please, by allowing the law to dictate what MY church considers moral. THey pick my pocket when they seek legal action against the churches who will not cave to their desires.

You can stick your fingers in your ears and yell “LALALALALAL!” as loud as you want, but those links just don’t go away. And there are more every day. As if even one wasn’t sufficient to stir freedom minded people to say “You will not pass here!”

yeah, I’m crazy. I think I deserve as much freedom as anyone else.