Individual Rights
Individual Rights are flippantly tossed around from water-cooler conversations to the roar of pundits and barking across social media. Worse, the political class uses ‘rights’ as a mechanism for manipulation of the population in general.
This week I dig into not only what Sam Adams had to say about Individual Rights but also the essence of meaning from Creation itself.
I have had it with both Republican and Democrat Parties yapping about ‘Individual Rights’ when they are not defining them from a Foundational perspective nor are they protecting them for what they actually are.
Take Ohio for example, the former head of the State Republican Party is now a candidate for the Ohio US Senate and yet she did nothing to call the Republican Governor to accountability for his arbitrary and pernicious despotism related to the ChicomFlu mandates. If this political party actually believed in ‘individual rights,’ they would not have and continue to trample all over them with fear, fraud and mistakes of manipulating truth. The regard for fundamental individual rights is not in the remotest neuron in the minds of the political class.
And forget the Democrat Party, they are 100% sold out to humanism with all its ‘ism’ derivatives that individual rights is a play-toy for despotism and tyranny.
Why is the over-reach of the Bureaucratic State with its executioners, the Executive Branch of government, able to subvert Individual Rights? It is partially because the Citizenry has been lulled into the misunderstanding of what ‘Individual Rights’ are. Sam Adams noted this in “The Rights of the Colonists As Men”:
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate1 this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Now the real ownership for the over-reach of government is on US as individuals. Yup, giving up essential natural rights in fear such that the Governor in Ohio is claiming that his mandates are law and that to return to ‘normal,’ all citizens must get the unproven shot. Has anyone bothered to check what his family investments are in the all the companies that are tied to his mandates? No and they won’t.
What so often occurs in these modern times is that the words ‘inalienable rights’ and ‘individual rights’ become mush in the chewing twist of an ideological pretzel. This chewed mush is once again the result of many pulpits and every level of education being collaborators with the voluntary enslavement of the citizenry.
Sam Adams has much to say about our natural individual rights but this statement again from the “The Rights of the Colonists As Men” should help us take charge in how even local governance acts:
“Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty,” in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations and all well-grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.
Ok, I have to stop belaboring the point in this not so short program prom...