Rights
Quotes 06/19/2004 |The rich have the right to buy more homes than anyone else. They have the right to buy more cars than anyone else, more gizmos than anyone else, more clothes and vacations than anyone else. But they do not have the right to buy more democracy than anyone else.
— Bill Moyers, “The Fight of our Lives”
iTunes: “Satellite” by Pigface from the album Preaching to the Perverted (1992, 4:11).
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Bryan
Michael Hanscom
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Ryan Waddell
June 20th, 2004 at 4:18 pm
A pretty good encapsulation of the Socialist view of “rights.” I prefer the Liberal/Libertarian view, that rights are immunities from government.
June 20th, 2004 at 5:29 pm
“I prefer the Liberal/Libertarian view, that rights are immunities from government.”
The 18th Century called. They want their revolutionary anti-aristocratic political theory back.
June 20th, 2004 at 5:31 pm
On second thought: sorry for trolling… I just had to!