What's the point to our having rights if we're so willing to give them up?

Answer 1

good point

Answer 2

Rights are not an unbounded benefit. You have to give up something in order to have a right. We have wiretap laws that ensure privacy of communictions, yet they don't currently apply to any internet communications. There's an argument as to whether they should, but since we also expect protection against terrorism and the sexual exploitation of children, would that serve the greater good? Before arguing that this is all cut-and-dried, how do you feel about the personal right to own firearms? This isn't widely respected and there's a constant battle to limit or repeal this right. Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, claimed he had the power to suspend it. That was challenged in court; Nagin has so far perjured himself and refused to comply with a court order to return the unlawfully seized guns. I wonder how he feels about slavery, though? No state or city may claim the power to opt out of any part of the U.S. constitution.

On the flip side of the wiretap issue, loosely based on freedom of speech and extended to include anything to which you can "reasonably expect privacy," taping comments made in a common area is also prohibited. So a school district was sued because the camera taping behavior on a school bus also included an audio track. This has far-reaching consequences. It ties the hands of anyone who is abused domestically or bullied in the workplace because if they gather any evidence of the abuse, it turns them into criminals. Don't you think it's outrageous that only bruises can be admitted as evidence when a sociopath can treat a person in a horribly degrading manner and then turn around and say, "Who, little old me?" They do this without a twinge of conscience which, by the way, they don't have.

Anyone trying to make this into a black-and-white issue doesn't understand the nature of rights.

Answer 3

Who says "so willing" I and many others are not about to give up our rights

Answer 4

I'm not willing . That's one reason I oppose Hillary Clinton running for president . She already stated we Americans "have too much free speech ". The Internet is her biggest threat - so she wants to stifle that as well . She also has plans for our money . She is a major threat to all this country stands for ; and our forefathers fought for .

Answer 5

What rights have you given up?

Answer 6

The point is that it was good while we they lasted.