I amended my post before your reply:
Even the rights that Conservatives don't approve of, like civil rights.
And the right to pursue and own earned property and the right of self defence isnt a civil right? It seems that the ACLU are the picky ones.
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This is what I love about these arguments. Tinfoil hatter nonsense aside, they fail based on their false premises.
Please show us where we are guaranteed the
right to own anything. Property which we happen to own cannot be taken from us by the government without due process of law, that is a limitation on government power. But there is no guaranteed right to own anything.
As for pursuing property, you may do so to your heart's content. Whether you catch it is entirely up to how fast you can run in relation to whatever it is you're chasing. A society where you are guaranteed your chase will end in property ownership is called something much, much different than capitalism.
And did it ever occur to you that self-defense, being codified in all 50 States and on the Federal level, may be a goal that has been reached and therefore is no longer a priority? Of course not. That wouldn't demonize the people you despise.
Proof once again that base hatred knows no facts nor logic, eh?
Dont mind these guys. They dont have anything to do with this country or what were talking about huh?
Be carful now. The ACLU does take select cases on property rights! If your homeless or an illegal immigrant than you have every right to your property according to the ACLU.
HOMELESS PROPERTY: Judge sides with ACLU in destruction of homeless property suit - ktuu.com Oh, and you left out gun rights.
James Madison: It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.
James Madison: As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
John Adams: “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.
James Madison: “That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.”
James Madison: A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species: where arbitrary taxes invade the domestic sanctuaries of the rich, and excessive taxes grind the faces of the poor; where the keenness and competitions of want are deemed an insufficient spur to labor, and taxes are again applied, by an unfeeling policy, as another spur; in violation of that sacred property, which Heaven, in decreeing man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, kindly reserved to him, in the small repose that could be spared from the supply of his necessities.
Benjamin Franklin: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
John Adams: Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection; and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary. But no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people. In fine, the people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent.
Thomas Jefferson: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
George Mason: "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
Thomas Jefferson: "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
James Madison: "(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
Thomas Jefferson Quoting Cesare Beccaria: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
John Adams: "Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion...in private self defense..."
Thomas Paine: "...arms...discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. ...Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of them."
George Mason: "To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them...
Alexander Hamilton: The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Patrick Henry: "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”
Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them..."
Samuel Adams: "The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
Patrick Henry: "...the people have a right to keep and bear arms."
James Madison: "The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..."
Richard Henry Lee: "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms."
Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson: A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk.
Thomas Jefferson: For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.
Tench Coxe "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."
Tench Coxe: Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.