Les Jones

How can a law “give” you a right. Isn’t a right soemthing indelible, something that cannot be given or taken away?

The bowman’s creed: I have the right to do what ever I want, as long as I don’t infringe on anyone else’s rights. The question is: Where do my rights end and yours begin?
Our brilliant forefathers created a government to serve this need. The legislatures draw the lines, the executives enforce those lines and the judicial meters justice and punishment. K.I.S.S. “The Government” cannot give you your rights but they can and will take them away. The less power you have, the more power they have, over you!
2000 pages to create a bill? It took less than 50 pages to create a nation.

The way they write laws is by saying you have no right to XXX except as we expressly allow. Like, you have no right to drive a car except as we allow. Or, you have no right to construct a house except as we allow. Or, you have no right to build a weapon except as we allow. You have no right to keep your house except as we allow. I once bought a house for $15,000. The mortgage payment was $150 a month. Then the Government printed so many dollars that inflated my property taxes to $300 per month. One citizen I knew scavanged mataterials from landfills and spent 15 years of his life building a house by the sweat of his brow. When he finished the Government reassessed his house to an amount that he could never pay so they foreclosed their tax lien and took his house.