--- In [email protected], chris fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an American according to the bill of rights you have the right to say what you want when you want to say it for example, If i were to not acknowledge that right > then i wouldn't have to accept your right to say what you wanted to say. > The police could actually arrest you for saying something they didn't want you to say if they didn't have to acknowledge your rights. ____________________________________________________________________
1) As a human being, you have the right to say what you want when you want even without a bill of rights - just as you have a whole bundle of rights irrespective of what the government says. The fact that the government allows or disallows you to exercise those rights does not mean that they are created by a "bill of rights". 2) The police routinely arrest people for saying something they don't want you to say. Did you know, Chris, that in Florida (and probably in most other police state jurisdictions), it is a more severe "crime" to say the wrong thing to a police officer than it is to physically assault someone? ________________________ > As an American i do consider myself to be special. ___________________________________________________________________ Just as special as the Germans of the 1930's considered themselves to be - or even more special? ________________________ > P.S if you do not value freedom above all else then you are not only not a libertarian but not an American and in fact you are a detriment to freedom > and should be deported if you do live in America. Maybe we could deport you and import an illegal who actually does value freedom above all. Just a thought ____________________________________________________________________ Damn, Chris, you really get into this "deportation" thing, don't you? At first, it was deport "illegal" immigrants (migrants, actually); then it was also deporting those who assisted migrants to make a new life for themselves and their families; now you have progressed to deporting those you deem to be a "detriment to freedom". Would they get a trial first? Mencken, I believe it was, said (something like): "I value freedom more than anything in the world, but not enough to impose it on anyone."
