Tuesday, October 7, 2008

"Certain rights" where'd they go?

“People have certain rights that are unalienable... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Do we? I certain believe we have certain rights which we are told we have, and many of us are satisfied with that. I’m not. I am sick of hearing politicians quoting our constitution then contradicting it in so many decisions that directly affect my natural rights. Let’s see these contradictions:

Life-
Where to start. How about capital punishment. Our government can over shadow the natural right of life and kill a citizen in the name of the law, the same laws that are meant to protect us, and support the constitution. We have wars of aggression, putting soldiers in harms way for sketchy reasons. Killing off men and women and profiting off of the wars that took there life's. That’s not expectable.

Liberty-
We have the famous wiretapping of the Bush Administration. We had/have our corrupt elections. The people were disenfranchised, votes were simply ignored, not counted. This corruption was by the very same people who were theoretically put in power to protect our liberty. Nationally gay marriage is not a legal right. Our government now controls matters of our home based on ideology, contradicting our constitution.

Pursuit of Happiness-
A record 46.6 million citizens of the United States were uninsured in 2005. Though that is about 15% of the US population as seen in these numbers it equals many people. People are loosing homes, jobs, etc. and the more a family loose the more opportunity for the younger people in the family shrinks. You cannot tell me that a wealthy child is equal to a child of the working class. It is a cycle that doesn’t seem to change and our government doesn’t seem to change our health care system despite the obvious connection between the two.

I think we need to reevaluate who we trust with our rights.

P.S. I didn’t read proof read so if this is complete gibberish then, my bad.

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