Mitt Romney: "Rights Come From Government"

From page 24 of the transcript.

"I think we're better off by strictly following the constitution as it existed and as it was brought forward, and if with think there's a need for a new right then going to the people or their elected representatives to establish that right rather than having judges from their own heart or their own mind establishing new rights and new laws. It's not for judges to legislate or to create a new constitution. That's something that only the people and their elected representatives should be able to do."

http://www.iptv.org/medialib/media/dmrdeb_20071212_rep.rtf

I think he needs to read up on the theory of natural law. Rights cannot be created, they can only be discovered and protected.

Also, a basic understanding of the Ninth Amendment would be useful.

There's a reading list for Rudy -- how about one for Mitt?

what is wrong with these people.

i cant handle four more years of the same old lies

This is right from the CFR/David Rockefeller playbook of "we are smarter than you all are so we should run the world".

Romney, can you say, "inalienable"?

The Founding Fathers also used a term we need to hear a lot more of (actually, to hear it at all) - "natural rights". I really wish they would stop saying "civil liberties" and just say "natural rights". That would be a whole lot stronger. When the media says people are complaining about the loss of "civil liberties" it makes us sound like whiners - "oh please give us our liberties back". They're RIGHTS, doggonit! They're what we naturally have as human beings - the BASICS like the right to life and liberty and fair trials by jury and habeas corpus and no secret prisons and the rights to the fruits of our labor. If we don't have these RIGHTS we might as well not live, right?

i have been debating my friend all day about mitt romney and ron paul. the foundation of our debate is the constituion- which Im not an expert but Im learning. I asked her an interesting question, by what measure should we choose a candidate? She said by his family values and by his character, bla blah blaa. I said those are ways to measure choosing a friend but not for picking a leader, the only thing that matters- not his religion or who he sleeps with is, how well he follows the law because this is the only way people can resolve our differences by what agreement we have with our governement. And hopefully hes a nice guy with character too. i know i have her thinking. And i just sent her that sound bite from yesterday stating we get our rights from people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVaxAO7vako&NR=1

He's using teen pregnancy to prove a point. problem is that teen pregnancy is actually decreasing and probably not because of the government program:

http://www.delmar.edu/socsci/rlong/data/TeenPregnancy-Nativi...

doesn't mean we shouldn't get rid of those government programs, just that Romney likes to make stuff up to make a point...

also:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/05/1/gr050107.html

That is most certainly the implication... that government decides what rights to give HUMANS... BEINGS born with INALIENABLE RIGHTS..

But Mitt doesn't read the Constitution, parts he doesn't agree with..

But boy he has gotten good at saying the word.. CONSTITUTION... lol!

I guess that is an improvement!! maybe when he talks with his lawyers he can ask them to tell him what it MEANS... oh yeah.. that is what he does... He reads it ... then says.. ok... lets decide what this should mean...

Remember he said in a debate when asked if he needed to get congressional approval to go to War that he would consult his lawyers first. This man scares me more than Gouliani and that's saying ALOT!

Mitt isn't "fitt" to be president.

Topic edited accordingly.

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I have always told people they have no Constitutional Rights, and there never was any Constitutional Rights. They are and have always been Constitutional Protections of God-Given Rights and/or natural rights.

People keep saying their rights are being taken away, as if the rights were given to them.

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This just goes to demonstrate that these politicians have as much contempt for the Constitution as they do, the American people. Anyone can read the Declaration of Independence and read that individuals are: "Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights....". The function of government is to protect those rights.

Mr. Romney, by his display of ignorance, has disqualified himself for the presidency, in my opinion. But then, Ron Paul is the only person running who is qualified.

The Communist Agenda, among other things is to convince the people of the need for government.

In order for these things to happen, the Communists need unwitting, meek, idiots to help spread their message.

We call these people Socialists.

-dave

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

SHE STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN - Michael Savage in reference to Dianne Fienstein