The scariest thing Kerry said last night.
"John Kerry found an opportunity last night to praise the Constitution of the United States. Perhaps he should read it before he talks about it. If he has read it he certainly doesn't show it. Last night Kerry said that we have "An unbelievable Constitution with rights that we afford people."
Rights that we afford people? Just who is the "we" he's talking about? If there is a great and glorious "we" out there that "affords" people their rights, then doesn't it stand to reason that that great and glorious "we" can un-afford those rights when the great "we" decides it's appropriate?
And just how do you define "afford?" The dictionary defines the word as "to make available, to provide." So now we know that John Kerry believes that our rights are provided to us by some "we" out there. The great "we" made those rights available to us. How grand. How grateful we are to the grand Imperial We.
Since most Americans were educated in government schools, I don't expect a lot of people to realize this; but our rights; our rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly ... all of our rights were not given to us by our Constitution or by any "we" out there. The people who founded our country and wrote our Constitution felt that these rights belonged to us by virtue of our very existence. The rights were "inalienable," not subject to being recalled by the Imperial We. The Constitution was written to protect those rights, not to grant them. The Constitution was written and ratified by the people to establish a government and to grant certain rights to government, not the other way around. The Constitution specifically says that all rights not granted to government by the people are reserved by the people. We are the "we" .. and we are the ones who empowered government, not the other way around.
John Kerry is not the first president to talk about the Constitution giving us our rights. Bill Clinton was of the same mind. He once talked of the Constitution giving Americans the rights they hold dear. This is a fundamental fault of liberalism. Liberals like John Kerry believe that America is great because of government. They believe that our rights flow from government. To believe that rights flow from government is to believe that these rights can be withheld by government. "
.....Neal Boortz, Today's Nuze