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October 2, 2009
Spokane to Vote on Right to Have No Rights
A strategy for destroying our constitutional rights that goes back to FDR's disastrous regime is to replace them with whimsical new rights that effectively reduce us to slaves. Roosevelt schemed of inflicting an "Economic Bill of Rights" that would make a farce of fundamental real rights, such as the right to own property.
Comrade Obama revealed that he shares a conception of rights that would have horrified the Founding Fathers when he stated during a debate that healthcare is a human right, implying that you have a right for the government to force other people to pay for the goods and services you consume. Seen from the other side, this means you have the right for the government to expropriate the product of your labor and give it to someone else. You have the right to be a slave.
Now Spokane, a city that normally represents the sane side of Washington State, has climbed aboard the slaves rights campaign with a "Community Bill of Rights" that entails sacrificing basic freedoms to attain liberal utopia. It will be on the ballot next month, calling for the following:
1. Residents have the right to a locally-based economy
2. Residents have the right to affordable preventative health care
3. Residents have the right to affordable and safe housing
4. Residents have the right to affordable and renewable energy
5. The natural environment has the right to exist and flourish
6. Residents have the right to determine the future of their neighborhoods
7. Workers have the right to be paid the prevailing wage, and the right to work as apprentices, on certain construction projects
8. Workers have the right to employer neutrality when unionizing, and the right to constitutional protections within the workplace
No doubt all of this sounds wonderful to moonbats. But a moment's reflection reveals that only a totalitarian government could guarantee these "rights," and only by trampling the real rights enshrined in our constitution.
A "right" to a "locally-based economy"? This is a right for the government to impose draconian restrictions on trade. A "right" to affordable and renewable energy? This means the government has a right to spend your money on subsidies for windmills and pixie dust.
There's a reason the Founding Fathers didn't grant us the right to a chicken in every pot. Rights guarantee freedom. Entitlements, handouts, and moonbattery guarantee slavery.
On a tip from gibbswtr.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 2, 2009 7:22 AM
Comments
"Residents have the right to affordable and safe housing"
Gee, that sounds swell. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Posted by: forest at October 2, 2009 7:30 AM
RESIDENT: Uh yeah, so I can only afford $25 a month and I have a family of 6, what do you have for me?
CITY GOVERNMENT: Plenty sir, just let me take some money from this person who earned it and...there you go, you've got one 5 bed room house in our best neighborhood. Will there be anything else, sir?
RESIDENT: Yes, we need some food and a car...
Slippery
Slope
of
Stupidity
Posted by: Paul H at October 2, 2009 7:38 AM
To me this is the scariest: "Residents have the right to determine the future of their neighborhoods."
What it really means is: Residents have the right to determine the future of their neighbors.
What that means is: civil war.
Posted by: puffdaddy at October 2, 2009 7:47 AM
Envision Spokane is made up of unions, a homeless group, and community organizations "a few of which have ties to national organizations".
Some local counter-moonbats are on to them.
http://video.aol.ca/video-detail/envision-spokane-draws-protest/2331904771/?icid=VIDURVNWS08
Posted by: forest at October 2, 2009 7:48 AM
Can you imagine the migration of parasites into the area if this is enacted?
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at October 2, 2009 7:57 AM
And the Resident, Worker, Environment has to be responsible for...er...er...hold it!
I'll get back to you later.
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at October 2, 2009 8:00 AM
That list is too wordy. I have condensed it for them:
1. You have the right to loot and mooch until you, and only you, decide that you feel content.
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at October 2, 2009 8:07 AM
The guy who founded the organization is a kook lawyer named Thomas Linzey who is from my area.
He believes that "nature" has the right to file lawsuits, and that corporations should have no rights.
http://www.celdf.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
He looks like a great replacement for Van Jones.
Posted by: forest at October 2, 2009 8:17 AM
AWESOME NEWS FOLKS!
Chicago eliminated from bid in first round.
Unfortunately, we're still on the hook for the First Wookie's flight as well as Comrade Chewy's flight.
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at October 2, 2009 8:27 AM
Define resident please.
Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at October 2, 2009 8:45 AM
5. The natural environment has the right to exist and flourish.
Think we need a little clarification here. I propose it be amended in this manner:
5a. The Sun has the right to rise at a specified time.
5b. Clouds have the right to move through the sky.
5b-1. The same shall have the right to deposit rain without prior approval.
5c. Grass shall have the right to grow.
5c-1. Due process shall be required to deprive said grass of its height.
5d. Wind may freely traverse the atmosphere but shall not exceed 35 mph.
Posted by: IOpian at October 2, 2009 8:45 AM
Another abuse of the word "right".
A right exists in your existence and ends where it would impact another person. So, you have a right to life and the _pursuit_ of happiness. The proposed 'right' to "affordable" healthcare requires someone else to pay for it unvoluntarily. Ergo - not a right. Duh!
Collectivists have never been able to admit to that because it fully refutes their kleptocratic goals.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at October 2, 2009 8:57 AM
Excellent post, Van, as succinct and as devastating a dissection of socialist pathology as I've read.
Posted by: Beef at October 2, 2009 9:01 AM
Lemme get this straight (apology to the Folsom Streeters for the use of that word): I no longer have to actually work, just show up and claim I am an apprentice construction worker and I will receive (because it is my right) renewable energy, healthcare (plastic surgery, this will prevent my suicide over the depression that I do not look like Gerard Butler from 300), likewise buying me a 4,000 sq foot house will also help the depression I feel from not being born a Kennedy, this house must be built on an antigravity platform (with appropriate phasing technology to allow birds and insects to pass through unperturbed) to protect the rights of nature. And all off my neighbors will work with me in harmonious fashion to determine the formation our house will fly in (Rainbow or Unicorn shaped I am sure).
And all of this with a locally base economy free of outside influences like food or medicine. For some reason I do not remember Spokane being a huge agricultural producer or for that matter technology, pharmaceuticals or really anything beyond logging and nuttery.
Posted by: Frank W at October 2, 2009 9:33 AM
@IOpian:
5a. The Sun has the right to rise at a specified time.
5b. Clouds have the right to move through the sky.
5b-1. The same shall have the right to deposit rain without prior approval.
Seems to me that I've heard this proposed moonbattery somewhere before.
Wait … wait … it's coming back to me …
"The rain may never fall 'till after sundown;
July and August cannot be too hot;
And there's a legal limit to the snow here;
In … " SPOKANE?
Posted by: ShorelineMike at October 2, 2009 10:56 AM
In the world of reality the only rights you have are those you can afford to defend.
Posted by: IOpian at October 2, 2009 12:16 PM
>3. Residents have the right to affordable and safe housing>
"Safe", as in "every law-abiding adult can posess and use guns in self-defence"?
Yeah, dream on.
Posted by: KHarn at October 2, 2009 3:47 PM
Among the many things, that this list of rights illustrates is the complete lack of education suffered by our society. Rights always have companion duties. Rights cannot exist with out duties and visa versa.
What, I ask, are the duties one has who would receive these rights? Maybe, in their minds they believe that democrats have rights and those who have duties are Republicans.
Posted by: Michael D at October 2, 2009 5:01 PM
OTOH, the "locally-based economy" should only last until someone realizes coffee can't be grown anywhere within 1000 miles of Spokane.
Posted by: Heather at October 3, 2009 6:14 AM
