Do You Have Rights?

It's time to bust the myth of our rights.

As long as the masses believe they have rights, they can be controlled. Yet, it is not hard to find accounts of people whose rights are casually violated, especially by those institutions that are charged with protecting our rights. So how can we claim to have rights when those rights can be so easily violated?

We have no rights

Our rights are all subject to government approval. Any right subject to outside approval can be disapproved.

Our rights are subject to government interpretation and are defined and redefined by the government based on inconstant prevailing wisdom. Any right that can be interpreted or defined by anyone else can be interpreted or defined out of existence.

Our rights are subject to government enforcement. Any government body that can enforce a right has the discretion to refuse to enforce a right.

Our rights are subject to government discretion regarding the nature, quality and scope of our rights. Any government that is not mandated to enforce a right can exercise its discretion to deny a right.

The government uses its authority to retaliate against anyone who exercises their rights, and is immune from liability for that retaliation. Any government that is immune from liability for violating your rights will violate your rights.

We are not permitted to enforce our own rights, we are required to seek redress in the government courts, who have the discretion to deny our rights and who have absolute immunity from liability for denying our rights. Government retains control over what our rights are by controlling who can enforce those rights.

We are punished for enforcing our own rights, even if personal enforcement is the only way to preserve our rights to life, liberty and property. Any person who is denied the right to enforce his rights has no rights.

We must have government permission in order to exercise our rights, via permits, licenses and other regulatory or taxation requirements, and that curtailment of rights has been determined by the government to be necessary. Government that can regulate our rights, can deny the exercise of those rights.

Our rights are an illusion that serve to protect the status quo and the powers-that-be, but do not protect the hard-working individual who plays by the rules. 

The emperor is parading the streets naked, yet everyone praises him for his magnificent princely robes. I say the emperor is naked, and ugly.

We have privileges, granted by the government and subject to government withdrawal when our exercise of those privileges causes problems for the government.

We have no rights, unless we take them back for ourselves.