And how easily we give up our rights
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Greyghoster@aussie.zone 6 days agoThe current mob seems have lost sight of the fact that citizens are supposed to belong in the USA and are protected by the constitution. The really interesting thing is how quickly all these public servants have accepted illegal orders.
venusaur@lemmy.world 6 days ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
People who make claims like this forget that nothing is protected by the constitution. The constitution is just a piece of paper. Rights are protected only by enforcement of the constitution and if nobody is willing to enforce it then the rights in there are completely worthless.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Protected by the rule of law maybe a better way to express it. The current holder of the office of President is destroyer of the rule of law.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
My point was mostly aimed at the people who view the constitution and constitutional rights as some quasi-mystical concept, similar to the one underpinning stupid phrasings like “natural rights” or “god-given rights” that also ignore that rights only exist because we, as human societies, decided to put effort into creating and enforcing them.
This seems to be more common in the US along with the quasi-mystical view of the founding fathers, the office of the president and the supreme court among other things. Possibly because a lot of those things have been around for too long for people to remember a time before they existed.