Thereis an entire legal movement that is referring to the Constitution as acharter of negative rights. To them,negative rights are that the government can’t do enough.
It’s negativebecause the government is limited. Why change the name? Why doesn’tObama say the Bill of Rights is too limiting? We have to open up theBill of Rights because people don’t want the Bill of Rights messedwith. But if you call the Constitution a charter of negative rightsand you have your buddy Bill Ayers working up a curricula for highschools and colleges where kids are being taught that the Constitutionis a charter of negative rights, they’re going to make the assumptionthe Constitution is oppressive, that the Constitution limits them.
WhatObama wants to do is an Anti-Bill of Rights. That’s what he wants. When he says, there’s nothing in there, the state or federalgovernment, what they can do to you, there’s nothing in theConstitution what they can do to you. Well, he says what’s in there iswhat they can’t do to you, but there’s nothing in there about what theycan do on your behalf. So to him the Constitution is very limiting. He wants an Anti-Bill of Rights.
The things Obama wants tointroduce, he wants to take from individual rights. Killing babieswould be an Anti-Bill of Rights idea. The Fairness Doctrine takes awayfree speech. It is an Anti-Bill of Rights item. Why name somethingfair that’s anti-free speech? You take away an individual’s right tobear arms, is Anti-Bill of Rights, but to Obama that’s a positiveright, a positive right granted to the government. He wants thegovernment to have sole power via the courts or however he can bringabout to limit your freedom, whereas the Constitution’s purpose is tolimit government’s freedom. A government entity looking at anindividual’s private information is Anti-Bill of Rights. A charter ofnegative rights is demeaning and a deliberate attempt to destroy theBill of Rights. That’s what Obama wants. That’s how he plans to getaround his redistribution scheme, or plans to implement it.
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Articles Our Position on Freedom
“Posterity,you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserveyour freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, Ishall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it.”John Adams
All across the Western world we see threats to our traditional,hard-won freedoms—especially freedom of speech. Whether on collegecampuses with political correctness or thanks to the vast spyingefforts of the US government, our freedoms are being undermined. Wecall for a return to the vision of the Founding Fathers: a vision thatvalues the rights of people to dissent. We also value the original Billof Rights, including man’s inalienable rights to keep and bear arms andto be secure in his home and possessions.