"Rights are special privileges the government gives you."

[dcraelin]

Conservatives can't cope with the idea that Government is a good thing.

That's easy ... because it isn't. It is a necessary evil, rife with pollution, and a penchant for abuse and misuse.

Which doesn't distinguish it from the

The private sector lacks the power to make laws, imprison people, marshal armies and oppress people, and kill them. It doesn't set regulation, it doesn't levy taxes, it doesn't force anyone to use it's service or product, it lacks all coercive power and is itself subject to government.
Only a duncical Leftist imbecile would think there's any comparison.

Have you ever heard of monopoly? Ma-Bell, Standard oil? What about some of the violence against the early labor movement by companies...where a stand-off government sat and watched or even helped?

That is not my quote.

Probably screwed up the quotes, sorry if so.

 

[NYcarbineer]

That's easy ... because it isn't. It is a necessary evil, rife with pollution, and a penchant for abuse and misuse.

Which doesn't distinguish it from the

The private sector lacks the power to make laws, imprison people, marshal armies and oppress people, and kill them. It doesn't set regulation, it doesn't levy taxes, it doesn't force anyone to use it's service or product, it lacks all coercive power and is itself subject to government.
Only a duncical Leftist imbecile would think there's any comparison.

Have you ever heard of monopoly? Ma-Bell, Standard oil? What about some of the violence against the early labor movement by companies...where a stand-off government sat and watched or even helped?

That is not my quote.

Probably screwed up the quotes, sorry if so.

I wasn't complaining just clarifying. Sorting out the who said what on this board is a nightmare.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

Which doesn't distinguish it from the

The private sector lacks the power to make laws, imprison people, marshal armies and oppress people, and kill them. It doesn't set regulation, it doesn't levy taxes, it doesn't force anyone to use it's service or product, it lacks all coercive power and is itself subject to government.
Only a duncical Leftist imbecile would think there's any comparison.

Have you ever heard of monopoly? Ma-Bell, Standard oil? What about some of the violence against the early labor movement by companies...where a stand-off government sat and watched or even helped?

That is not my quote.

Probably screwed up the quotes, sorry if so.

I wasn't complaining just clarifying. Sorting out the who said what on this board is a nightmare.

Nobody will EVER attribute my posts to you. Rest easy, fellow.

 

[dblack]

I think is is permitted by a hands-off smaller government attitude. Who enforces the rules of Capitalism?

I don't know of any limited government advocates who would defend government standing by while private interests, corporate or otherwise, employed violence.

 

[Immanuel]

do people in north korea have the right to vote?

Point? Oh, you have none.

the point is that rights are given by governments. we have a right to free speech. not everyone country has that. freedom of religion/press/assembly? that's not universal. right to bear arms? nope. equal protection? please.

so what's the problem again?

Nope. The founding Fathers said it, our rights are given by God. Whether or not libtards socialists say otherwise makes no difference.

It is probably more accurate to state that all men have inalienable rights such as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that governments of repressive nations such as North Korea have usurped or stolen those rights. Human beings have those rights, but some repressive governments, through the strength of arms, have removed those rights.

I know, I know, that concept is completely foreign to people that worship those who govern, but it is the truth.