[Newspoetry] FW: The Rights of Man Are Not Constitutional, but more universal and eternal.

[DL Emerick]

Strangely, the Right Wing does not Protect Our Rights!

 

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From: DL Emerick [mailto:emerick at tds.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:12 PM
To: 'hardball at msnbc.com'
Subject: The Rights of Man Are Not Constitutional, but more universal and
eternal.

 

Dear Chris,

 

I love your show.  You love argument, especially when your opponent says
something demonstrably wrong.

 

Here's an argument you ought to take up and win.

 

Where do Rights, such as for detainees, come from?

 

To hear the yammer of the right wing, you'd think the Constitution created
trial rights.

 

It doesn't and didn't.  Proof, twice two-fold.

 

1st double: the Rights of Man (ala Paine) and the Declaration of
Independence -

Clearly the Founders thought Rights existed universally and in all men (the
created equals).

 

2nd double: the Bill of Rights merely mentions ("enumerates") Rights,

And, to make this perfectly clear, though left ambiguous, in Amendments 9
and 10,

Further mentions the fact of a huge raft of Rights not specified by the
Constitution.

 

In short when people say the Constitution's Rights don't protect the Detroit
bomber-wanna-be, or the Gitmo-detainees, 

They are misinformed, fundamentally, about where Rights originate, and how
they are vested in Man, not created by Governments.

 

Governments have only the obligation of responsibility: to recognize and not
violate such inherent, self-evident Rights.

 

Sincerely,

Donald L Emerick


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