"Rights," constitutional and otherwise
This is for George (yeah, our own, dear but benighted, president), and all the historically illiterate who have written to me in such stentorian tones on the subject of our "more honored in the breach than the observance" federal constitution. Folks, the U.S. Constitution does not "grant" anyone rights. Rights are recognized and observed by the U.S. Constitution, not "granted. Rights (the word is derived from old German, and was a concept unique to their cultures) are the gift of god, from birth, by virtue of being human.
A government, any government, unwilling to recognize and observe certain fundamental rights - those enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights by the men who founded this nation - deserves, and ought to be overthrown. Heresy? Treason? Uh-uh. None other than Abraham Lincoln said exactly that: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of their government, it is their constitutional right to alter it, and their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
This government systematically violated - rode roughshod over, in poetic phrase - all my rights as a citizen and human being. Make no mistake: if I get a chance to overthrow the United States' government - a government by criminal conspiracy - I will. That's my right, as a human being. As a man of honor, I consider it further to be a responsibility.
You need, all of you who spew your pseudo-patriotic claptrap, to come into the real world, out of the virtual one given you by nitwit movie makers and television evangelists who work to serve the new secular god, government. As the right of every living thing, the right to defense of one's life is most fundamental. That the oppressor is the public and their government does not change that. It makes it even more necessary. That the majority has decided to kill me, rape me, or deprive me of my property changes nothing except the perceived power equation. You think you're strong enough to do whatever you damned well please. You're not that strong. You're far, far more vulnerable than you know. In fact, were it not for the children among you, I would have destroyed you utterly. You were that close.
And don't imagine that others will have my compassion for your children, or my kind of honor.
Think about it.
A government, any government, unwilling to recognize and observe certain fundamental rights - those enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights by the men who founded this nation - deserves, and ought to be overthrown. Heresy? Treason? Uh-uh. None other than Abraham Lincoln said exactly that: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of their government, it is their constitutional right to alter it, and their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
This government systematically violated - rode roughshod over, in poetic phrase - all my rights as a citizen and human being. Make no mistake: if I get a chance to overthrow the United States' government - a government by criminal conspiracy - I will. That's my right, as a human being. As a man of honor, I consider it further to be a responsibility.
You need, all of you who spew your pseudo-patriotic claptrap, to come into the real world, out of the virtual one given you by nitwit movie makers and television evangelists who work to serve the new secular god, government. As the right of every living thing, the right to defense of one's life is most fundamental. That the oppressor is the public and their government does not change that. It makes it even more necessary. That the majority has decided to kill me, rape me, or deprive me of my property changes nothing except the perceived power equation. You think you're strong enough to do whatever you damned well please. You're not that strong. You're far, far more vulnerable than you know. In fact, were it not for the children among you, I would have destroyed you utterly. You were that close.
And don't imagine that others will have my compassion for your children, or my kind of honor.
Think about it.
posted by Judo Knight-Errant at 10:56 AM
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