Originally Posted By u/pixelsense84 At 2025-05-18 01:18:29 AM | Source


  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    12 days ago

    Did they forgot the part where they pull down their pants & bend over face down, ass up? That’s crucial.

    retain our Constitutional right

    That’s a confused understanding of the government’s founding principles. Thomas Pain wrote

    It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect – that of taking rights away.

    As radical as it may sound, the government is founded on the principle that fundamental rights are inherent & irrevocable (ie, inalienable). Laws don’t create them, though they may unjustly breach them. That’s why protest is justified & no government can legitimately remove that right no matter how much it claims it can.

    Maybe it makes no difference in practice, but I get the feeling those earlier thinkers would have made better protesters.