Reply #423: la la la [View All]

[scrawmp]

Shadowgrouse has already done a good job pointing out the folly of all your vague legal generalizations, I have better things to do than go back and forth with you. The Supreme Court has done a fantastic and cowardly job avoiding making a decision on the subject, which seems to be par for the course for them on even more topics lately. There are multiple conflicting decisions in the lower courts, and it is still up in the air from a case law perspective.

This is meaningless, anyway. The Bill of Rights does not grant you rights, it restricts the government from infringing upon your preexisting natural rights. What some random judge opined 40 years ago has as much <i>legitimate</i> bearing upon my natural human rights as you would consider that your feared "right wing nutjob judges" would have on yours. Or, for that matter, the opinion of Kim Jong Il over his subjects.

The illegitimate denial of a person's rights does not mean he ceases to possess them.