The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

Prosperity Is the Byproduct. Liberty Was Always the Point

In much of the world, rights are treated as privileges the government grants to its citizens. In the American system, it's the opposite.

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

LAPD guarding the entrance to the LAPD Rampart Division building. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditi…

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges - LewRockwell

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”—Thomas Jefferson What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distr…

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. Government now claims th…

The Unfinished Revolution | When Rights Become Privileges

DavidIcke.com | Gareth IckeJohn & Nisha Whitehead“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”—Thomas JeffersonWhat exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July?Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as …