Posted by
ICONIC FREEDOM on Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:42:39 PM
Recently on Glenn Beck’s program he made another ownership statement regarding where our rights come from. His argument is that liberals say there is no god which then leaves the issue of rights coming from government and not god.
This issue continues to be a source of contention to people who want ownership; having ownership then invokes control. How do we know that? Because in America we want our Constitution to uphold our ownership of property so that we can control how we manage it, what we do to it, and how we live in it – our comfort and security.
The same can be said about the ownership of self. We want our Constitution to uphold the ownership of self so that we don’t have government telling us what health care to buy, what food to eat, what exercise to participate in, what school to attend, et.al.
A “Right” is intrinsic – it exists within you and cannot be taken away from you – your thoughts, your faith, your speech. Only through government can your rights be limited, but even then, in the privacy of your mind you can say anything you want, think anything you want, pray to whoever you want and government cannot stop you.
What difference does it make where our rights come from?
Some say their deity, others just say nature itself.
If you personally believe your rights come from your specific deity, who would infringe on your freedom to believe such.
If you personally believe your rights come from nature, who would infringe on your freedom to believe such.
The only reason a person demands that others believe as he believes, is to control.
We complain about government trying to control us, yet we engage in similar behavior when we attempt to own something that does not belong to us – an individual’s rights; the individual’s conscious mind to decide for self.
The only rights we need care about are individual rights by which a person can make his way in this world without government interference.
The only laws we need care about are the ones this nation creates which protect self and society from those who would infringe on the freedom of someone trying to make his way in this world.
We don’t have a right to comfort just because we have distaste for someone’s choices.
Live your life at no cost to others without their consent. If they didn’t consent, don’t make the choice.
If you insist that rights only come from your deity; that laws are only from your deity and demand others be in abeyance to such, then you have abandoned the birth of our nation in freedom.
You’ve abandoned freedom of the conscious mind to decide for self in understanding that, “we hold these truths to be self-evident”.
Consider two very important pieces of observation: the Declaration speaks only to the terminology of “Creator” – a term that is universal for each individual conscious mind to decide for self.
Second, since the Declaration of Independence isn’t our rule of law, but the Constitution is, even upon the addition of the Bill of Rights, it never invoked the word God, gave no reference to, and placed no subjective ideology above any other within its writings. Freedom of religion to decide for self. Not that the nation would not necessarily have its citizens enjoying their personal religions, but the freedom to choose that religion if desired.
If, as some would like to project our founders “intentions” were of religion, would we not have advanced our understanding of individual freedom at this given time, to realize, as we did with slavery, suffrage, and other issues, that each must have the freedom to decide for self irrespective of government. That each must have ownership of self to decide. That each must respect the inherent right of another to decide for self.
Government cannot be involved in religion as it cannot be involved in anything where an individual must decide for self. Otherwise it’s nothing but another form of control. Government makes a mess of everything it tries to control no matter what the intention.
Limited government, personal responsibility, safety of our nation – these are issues which unite us all.
How a person acquires his integrity and character is of no concern to me or you, only that he does.
If each developed personal responsibility toward owning his choices, only makes choices for which he has the ability to respond, then only makes those choices at a cost to no one else except those who consent, the byproduct is integrity and character through the upholding of freedom, to self and others.