"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." ~ Declaration of Independence
Coercive 'Rights'
Submitted by Serenity on Mon, 2012-05-21 02:00
The term civil rights itself used to mean rights of citizens – the right to marry or own property, for example – which the state was bound to respect. Now it means rights the state should enforce. And some of these “rights” are highly questionable, such as the “right” of access to others’ private property.
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