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America Is No More, by Paul Craig Roberts, 19 Sep 2007
Comments on the lack of concern for constitutional rights under George W. Bush, as evidenced by the tasering of a student at a speech by John Kerry
"Usually when police violate constitutional rights and commit acts of police brutality they do it when they believe no one is watching, not in front of a large audience. Clearly, the police have become more audacious in their abuse of rights and citizens. What explains the new fearlessness of police to violate rights and brutalize citizens without cause?" |
| Animal Rights Absurdity, by Scott McPherson, 22 Oct 2003 |
On Equality and Inequality, by Ludwig von Mises, Modern Age, 1961
Related Topics: Capitalism, Compulsory Education, Entrepreneurship, Government, Labor, Socialism
"The doctrine of natural law that inspired the eighteenth century declarations of the rights of man did not imply the obviously fallacious proposition that all men are biologically equal. It proclaimed that all men are born equal in rights and that this equality cannot be abrogated by any man-made law, that it is inalienable or, more precisely, imprescriptible." |
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On the Origin and Character of Rights, by William Blackstone, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Mar 1981
Selection extracted from Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. I
"By the absolute rights of individuals we mean those which are so in their primary and strictest sense; such as would belong to their persons merely in a state of nature, and which every man is entitled to enjoy, whether out of society or in it ... For the principal aim of society is to protect in the enjoyment of those absolute rights ..." |
The Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement, by Ronald Hamowy, Mises.org Daily Article, 26 May 2006
"Rights so conceived do not require that others be forced to act in specific ways if I am to exercise my rights but only that they refrain from intervening in certain areas without my consent. Thus, my right to life does not entail that others are obligated to do everything within their power to keep me alive but only that they cannot kill me." |
The Rights of the Colonists: The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, by Samuel Adams, 20 Nov 1772
Hanover College History Department, Hanover Historical Texts Project
"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature." |
What Crisis?, by Scott McPherson, 18 Sep 2006
Related Topic: Health Care
"... the root of the problem is a total breakdown in our society of any understanding of the concept of individual rights ... Were it otherwise, patients and health-care workers alike would stop making spurious arguments about their alleged rights and accept responsibility for their lifestyle choices — whether it's a patient who needs to find a new pharmacist or an ambulance driver who should find a new line of work." |
Democracy Versus Freedom, by Jarret B. Wollstein, Freedom Daily, Jan 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, Inalienable Rights, Voting
"... it is essential to distinguish between electoral and substantive rights. ... Electoral rights give you some say in who governs. They do not guarantee that elected officials will respect your freedom. Substantive rights are the ability to control your own life and property. They are the core elements of freedom." |
The Drug War's Immorality and Abject Failure, by Anthony Gregory, Freedom Daily, Jul 2006
Related Topics: War on Drugs, Children
"Drug use, unlike any of these real crimes, does not involve a trespass against anyone's right to life, liberty, or property. On the contrary, people have a right to peacefully use drugs ... You may not approve of their choices, but to interfere coercively with them is itself a violent attack on their rightful liberty." |
| Cartoons |
| Fellow Patriots, they keep chipping away at our rights!, by Chuck Asay, 6 Jul 2006 |
| Government Politicians, Who Never Ever Lie, by Ted Rall, 22 Jul 2006 |
| Rights, by Clay Bennett, 2006 |
| Books |
A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State
by David Kelley, Cato Institute, 1998 |
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Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality
by Thomas Sowell, 1984 |
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Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
by James Bovard, 1994 |
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Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite
by Tibor R. Machan, 2004 |
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