California is just Fucked-Up

[Ninurta]

That idiot forgets American Citizens have Rights, even in California,,,, for now!

Rights are funny things. In reality, we have only those rights we are willing to enforce ourselves. Government, and some individuals, have come to think that government issues rights to us, and can therefore revoke them, but that is not how it works.

When America was founded, the colonists did not say to the British Crown "can we have some rights, pretty please?". Instead, they said "these ARE our rights - come and take 'em if you can." Then, after the Crown could not take those rights, they codified them into the Constitution, supposedly preventing our new government from interfering with those rights. Note that well - the rights were not given by the government, the government was merely banned by law from interfering with them.

Now, 230 or so year later, government has conveniently forgotten how that works, and has nearly brainwashed a large part of the population into forgetting how it works. They appear to believe - and would like us to believe - that rights are given by the government, which would give government the power to revoke them at will, since they would be the issuing agency.

But they are not. WE are the issuing agency. Our rights come from us, not the government, and no one can take them - we can only give them up, fail to enforce them, if the government can convince us to do so.

What we need is a second revolution, to put the New Crown back in it's proper place, or abolish it and start over again from scratch, making use of lessons learned in the last couple hundred years to formulate a new one.

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