Liberals Re-Writing The Constitution, Re-Defining Rights
All without the consent of the voters.
The buzzword on the left nowadays is “tolerance” for those with different lifestyles — like cross-dressers — but almost everything that these folks want to do, liberals won’t tolerate. One smoker lamented that if “gays were discriminated against today the way smokers are, there would be an uproar.” Gun owners have reason to be fearful too. In a recent blog interview on Moveon.org, John Edwards of North Carolina proclaimed that health care, child care, a livable wage and a clean environment are “rights,” but owning a gun is a “privilege.” The men and women who gathered in Kiowa would like to send him a copy of the Constitution.
David Harsanyi sent that link along to me, and also pointed out this YouTube video of Edward proclaiming a living wage, a college education and…internet access as “rights,” but gun ownership as a privilege:
Transcript of the pertinent part where Edwards is answering questions about what is and is not a right:
Question: A college education?
Edwards: Right.
Q: Health care?
E: Right.
Q: A livable wage?
E: Right.
Q: Owning a handgun?
E: Privilege.
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Q: Access to the Internet?
E: That should be a right.
Just to review: Health care, a “living wage” and internet acccess (none of which appears in the Constitution) are “rights.” But owning a firearm, something that is explicitly named as a right in the Constitution - it has it’s own amendment for crying out loud, even free speech and free assembly, etc. were lumped together in the 1st - is now a “privilege” according to Edwards.
It’s almost as if people like Edwards have absolutely no respect for what the Constitution actually says, or the methods by which we establish those things that are and are not “rights.”
