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RE: The Difference(s) Between Freedom, Rights, and Entitlement
Yep, absolutely! One of the questions I've started asking folks who fall in the "constitutionalist" range of things (and sometimes just folks in general) is about where rights come from (according to the Declaration), and who they must be protected from (according to the amendments).
Most don't realize that the wording is quite explicitly that we have the rights, and they must be protected from government, which will attempt to violate those rights.
Have you dug into the shady nature of the constitution itself, its replacing the Articles of Confederation, and all the screwiness that went along with it?
If I have, I no longer can pull the file. I was a constitutionalist on my way to becoming an anarchist. If we could just get gov to follow the constitution, everything will work out.
Rights don't actually exist. What we call rights are simply moral concepts based on the prevailing views of the day.
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
~ Ayn Rand
The Constitution, the supreme law of the land.. When Iraq was putting together a new Constitution, Jay Leno said, "Why don't we give them ours, it's served us well for over 200 years and we don't appear to be using it anymore."
"Government does not operate under the rule of law, it operates under the rule of force." ~ Schaeffer Cox, political prisoner
Here's a real quick breakdown my friend Etienne did: https://www.scribd.com/document/385774868/Understanding-Our-Slavery-The-Shady-History-of-the-Constitution
There's a guy we met at Libertopia a year or two ago who wrote an entire, fat book just on how the constitution itself was a scam pulled over on the people, and how most of the folks who wrote the declaration were against it or left out of the conversation completely.
Thank you for that. It was a good read, liked his sarcasm too. In this day and age, a parent's responsibility must include correcting public school indoctrination.
The school doesn't care, the teachers don't care. They get a paycheck and when money and morals collide, too often it's the morals that take the hit.