The Liberal Left has been at it again. They have been trying to re-frame the rights we have in the Constitution as “negative” rights, which is assumed to be a bad thing.
By now, you should be familiar with the Alinsky tactic: frame the debate in terms favorable to your point of view and you win.
The reason they want to re-frame our rights as “negative” is that they want a new, UN-style statement of “positive” rights. You can imagine all the things that will become “entitlements” in that kind of scenario.
There are two major problems with this approach.
First, we already have a statement of positive rights: it’s called the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. What’s not “positive,” for example, about the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?
Second, the “negative” aspect of rights applies to the government, not the people. This is huge. Any right we have not specifically given to the government–whether federal or state–is reserved to the people. What other rights do we need?
The only rights the government has are those specifically spelled out in the Constitution or–increasingly–which we are increasingly willing to allow the government to usurp through unconstitutional legislation by the Congress or the judiciary twisting the Constitution like a pretzel to justify a predetermined outcome.
This has got to stop. The 9/12 march on the Capitol was only the first salvo–a warning shot across the bow of the ship of state. I hope the liberals piloting that ship are paying attention, but I doubt it. It’s up to We the People to take our government back.
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