IV

A Tyranny of Rights

By Iratus

The vast majority of what most people imagine to be rights are nothing of the kind. Some of these privileges widely mistaken for rights are even called rights in the U.S. Constitution, which is particularly troubling and problematic. The reason this mislabeling of government-granted privileges as rights persists and is rarely challenged is because few Americans have any grasp of what defines and disqualifies something as a right.

Definition:

• A right is exclusive to individuals
• A right places no onus or requirement on any other individual
• A right neither conflicts with nor infringes on any individual’s rights
• Our rights come from our creator and cannot be bestowed or removed by any man or government
• All of us have all rights all the time—and only by violating someone else’s rights do we render our own null, to the degree and for a time determined by our laws (only you, by immoral action, can render your own rights null)

Given this singular definition of rights, most of what are considered and even consecrated as rights are clearly nothing more than government-granted privileges. Merely because their cultural values lead our forefathers to consider some liberties and privileges to be essential to the specific form of government they chose, or even sacred in a free society and so therefore were consecrated in the Constitution (making them American cultural values) in no way converts them into rights, no matter what label one puts on them. By the same token, some actions that are widely considered to be that which one must first seek permission in order to exercise are instead inalienable rights, and therefore inviolate and the exclusive domain of the individual, despite the government’s rationing and limitation of those rights.

This destructive confusion of rights and privileges leads to an oft-repeated mistake, as when one refers to “my Constitutional rights” or “my Eighth Amendment rights.” In the first case, the Constitution does not and cannot confer rights on anyone and there is no special set of rights created by the Constitution. In the second case, many of the amendments component to the “Bill of Rights” in no way create, construe, or even consecrate rights. Instead, they most often refer to specific privileges granted to the people or are the peoples’ legal protections from acts of the federal government. Those things are not rights, just benevolent provisions, but most Americans habitually refer to them as rights. And that is foolish and dangerous.

One can extrapolate from the aforementioned definition of rights that which disqualifies something as a right, but let’s be explicit here:

Disqualifiers:

• If it refers to or is understood to be held by members of a specific group, it is not a right; there are no such things as group rights
• If it requires the assent, effort, genius, or property of any individual or group, it is not a right.
• If it infringes on or in any way conflicts with an individual’s rights, it is not a right.
• If it is derived from any source other than our creator—from legislation, executive power, court ruling, or any boon from any other individual, group, or government—it is not a right
• If one is said to have it at some times but not at others, or if some people but not all are said to have it, it is not a right

The result of the prevalent lazy and indiscriminate approach to rights is that we become more and more tyrannized and even terrorized by the invention of new “rights” that are not rights, while at the same time accustomed to the periodic revocation or overruling of some rights. Voting rights, trans rights, abortion rights, gay rights, women’s rights, airline passenger’s rights… these are no rights. These are attacks on reason, and often on much more.

Killing Sacred Cows

Despite the unanimous understanding that adult Americans have a right to vote, there is no such thing as a right to vote. Voting is a privilege granted by government, due to the specific form of government in the United States of America. God Almighty gave no human being a right to vote. That privilege was granted by the framers of our Constitution and to subsequent legislative bodies of our government as they expanded the definition and limited certain prohibitions to that privilege. Voting is not a necessary human function. Instead it is a function necessary to certain forms of government, some good and some evil.

What’s worse, voting is a vehicle of unspeakable tyranny, used by federal, state, and local governments to allow individuals the malevolent privilege of theft-by-proxy, wherein people choose proxies to steal money and property from their fellow citizens for selfish benefit. You cannot legally go into your neighbors home or bank account and rob them, but you CAN legally vote for someone else to do so. Yet this tyrannical privilege is called a right!

There is no right to abortion. That gruesome privilege was granted to the people by a court of law, despite the fact that deliberately killing an innocent (the definition of murder) is not only illegal, but wholly immoral and inescapably evil—as are those who celebrate this satanic rite. Hiring someone to murder one’s own unborn child is the gravest crime any human can commit. But Americans largely have the court-granted privilege of doing so. That is the antithesis of a right.

Outrageously, some rights possessed by every living creature, though even consecrated in the Constitution, are widely and severely limited and infringed upon by laws, regulations, and ordinances expressed by federal, state, and local governments. The rights to arms and self defense are inalienable and vital to one’s existence. Even so, many Americans hold and argue that no such rights exist, despite “…shall not be infringed” in the Constitution, and the inescapable laws of God and nature. These inane and typically malevolent anti-right/anti-liberty ideals are constantly challenged but are also widely supported from by individuals and organizations in every facet of American society, up to and including the Federal government (that very thing constrained from doing so by the Constitution).

The Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution states that no person shall, “… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;” yet due process of law requires the effort, genius, and consideration of many other people…all of which disqualifies due process as a right. It is instead a privilege guaranteed by the Constitution; a privilege that has many times been suspended and even negated by laws.

The Fifth Amendment also states, “…nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Thereby giving government the right to violate the foundational of human rights and to then decide what constitutes “just compensation.” All of which, of course, makes no sense whatever and is wholly immoral.

The Sixth Amendment refers to the “right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury,” yet that “right” imposes on the time and effort of a host of other people, making it clear that it is in no way a right and instead a government-granted privilege that is particular to American values and our form of government.

I could go on and on pointing out the hypocrisy and misdirection consecrated in our Constitution, but I assume you get the point.

Setup to Fail

What becomes clear when you understand what is and is not a right and after applying a discriminating eye to the Constitution and to laws, is that we’ve been setup to fail. The inevitable result of lazy reasoning, compounded by government avarice and immoral justification, compounded by the leftists’ unquenchable thirst to pervert, divide, destroy, and dominate is a tyranny of rights that exist in conflict with one another, as product or as impetus for what used to be called Americans to dissolve into conflict with one another. All by design.

The continual invention, destruction, and perversion of rights is meant to destroy the definitions so that reason may not be applied to what government decides for us. Ultimately, one may not act freely and instead is caught in a web of rights and laws and privileges and prohibitions that render free action impossible, reference to our founding ideals unhelpful, and permission seeking a continual onus on the individual.

So today we’re beset by a tyranny of “rights” that ensure whatever free private or public act one exercises is bound to conflict with some rights of others. And despite the impossibility and illogic of that occurring, these assumed violations of rights are today what move our society. In the absolute wrong direction.

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Previously:
Keep the Water Hot