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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsALL of our rights are important. Why do people only worry about one or two of them?
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/all-of-our-rights-are-important-why-do-you-only-worry-about-one-or-two-of-them/" Certain commenters on this post disparaged the Moral Monday demonstrators, and mocked them for being concerned about their voting rights being taken away. These same commenters were themselves all a-flutter about their religious or gun rights being taken away, and werent concerned about their own voting rights.
In reality, all of our rights are important, and any infringement of them needs to be taken seriously. And there are those who would thus infringe upon them, based on class, color or creed. While you are focused on one right, your others can be watered down or taken away entirely, like a carnival magicians sleight of hand: distracting you with his left, and tricking you with his right.
Back during the reign of Bush the Lesser, it was our First, Fourth and Fifth amendment rights that they tried to take away (speech, privacy, and presumption of innocence). The Bushistas herded demonstrators into free speech zones, thereby rendering the rest of the nation to be NOT subject to our Constitutional right to free speech; imposed warrantless wiretaps and arrested people without probable cause; and even tried to take away our rights to a trial by a jury of our peers. The gun nutters paid no attention to these crimes, concerning themselves only with their right to keep and bear arms.
Under the Obama administration, most of these rights were restored at the Federal level. However, the Red states have been busily taking away the rights of likely Blue voters via legislation and gerrymandering. And various Fundagelical Teabaggers are trying to take away our individual religious rights by substituting a government-sanctioned Christian faith.
The loss of any of our rights is cause for concern, regardless of how unimportant it might seem in comparison with other rights. So let us all join together and support each other in this noble pursuit. As the man said, if we do not hang together, we shall all surely hang separately."
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ALL of our rights are important. Why do people only worry about one or two of them? (Original Post)
riqster
Feb 2014
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Nay
(12,051 posts)1. Because they are emotionally attached to rights like gun and religious rights,
not because they are intrinsically more important. Guns = power for lots of men and some women. Religion = everyone needs to bow down to my religion because it's the correct one, and the rest of you are heathens.
It's all due to overheated emotions, mostly subconscious, so you can't even have a rational conversation with most of these people. They are not introspective enough to see why they believe what they do.
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)2. You can't explain how some people treat their civil rights
Many of the people who would scream about losing their 1st, 4th or 5th Amendment rights would happily give up their own 2nd Amendment rights and take away the rights of those who value RKBA.
Go figure