rights & Freedom

Human rights:

Identity, life, autonomy – self-determination of name, family, ethnicity, faith; preservation of individual existence; personal authority over one’s being, body and mind. Without human rights, one cannot be a human. 

Civil rights:

Liberty, process, equality – ability to associate freely, travel, speak; subject to established protocols of justice; application of law equally unto all. Without civil rights, one cannot be a citizen. 

Financial rights:

Property, profit, perpetuity – power to possess exclusively real and intangible goods; asymmetric trade to increase accrual; assignation of ownership to future co-parties. Without financial rights, one cannot be a player.

Digital rights:

Safety, access, security – assurance digital systems will not harm real persons; ability of all to participate in the world wide web; protection of data from theft, vandalism. Without digital rights, one cannot be an entity. 

Rights of man, once construed, may not be abridged, annulled, or abolished – they may be only upheld, or violated.

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Some semblance of a nation - stolen from 500 other nations, populated with criminals, slaves, refugees from 100 other nations, waging perpetual war against 50 other nations.

Some semblance of democracy – scam elections, rigged balloting, partisan polling, complicit media, organized interference, political assassination.

Some semblance of republic – millionaire representatives, entrenched bureaucracy, executive excesses, partisan courts, agency overreach, corporate takeover.

Some semblance of justice - mobs are allowed to riot, police are allowed to kill, wealthy are allowed to steal, corporations are allowed to pollute, poor are allowed to starve.

Some semblance of pandemic - projected aforethought, precipitated by edict, managed by mandate, perpetrated by presumption, rescinded by executive order.

Some semblance of health – testing new strains amid toxic terrain, vaccine induced auto-immunity, booster shots, increased transmission, side-effects, crippling protective measures, mass psychopathy, mounting death toll.

Some semblance of freedom – medical travel permit, ubiquitous surveillance, watch lists, check points, snitch hotlines, censorship of public discourse, curtailment of assembly, confiscation of weapons, presumption of guilt, pre-crime enforcement, lockstep. 

Some semblance of normal – endemic myopia, sheepish compliance, self-righteous complacency, hypocritical virtue posturing, discrimination against deviants, pervasive persecution, paranoia, perversion.

Some semblance of reality – online games, telecommuting, zoom classroom, cyber bullying, net-linked shopping, view-screen society, revisionist subliminal infotainment, drug-enhanced virtual vacation.

Some semblance of people – behavior medication, gene tampering, replicant anatomy, robotic prostheses, injectable nanobots, microwave mind control, synthesized cyber-genetic hominids.

Some semblance of life – boredom/stress, loneliness/strife.

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Everyone has a right to use pesticides – according to a Maine pamphlet on pesticide use 

Equal rights is a relatively new concept historically. In Classical Greece, rights were enjoyed only by a few, the hippes, or those who could afford a horse. For thousands of years subsequently, rights were reserved for the elite, the very top of the political food chain. The wealthiest, most powerful, most remorseless individuals contested their own rights between each other while denying any rights whatsoever to subjects, serfs, servants, spouses or slaves. It wasn’t until late in the 18th century that the American Revolution offered an example to the world of structuring that promised equal rights for all, though in practice full citizenship had been extended from bloodline nobility only to white male property owners to neuter their growing financial potency by absorbing them into centralized banking. Gradually, other informed groups of oppressed people struggled for rights for themselves – working people, women, colored people, and later disabled people and homosexuals, accomplishing a wave of revolutions around the globe that alarmed aristocrats. At the debut of the 21st century the Jeffersonian notion of equality for all was recognized globally. However as a practical matter, the bulk of the population is stuck with second-class status. The average person in any country today is subject to warrantless intrusion, detention, interrogation, rendition, elimination without warning, appeal or recourse, making any lofty rhetoric about rights utterly meaningless. 

Human rights are not incurred because humans deserve it, but because without human rights, a person cannot be a human being. 

Human rights include the right to exist, the right to identity, the right to procreate, the right to perambulate, the right to pursuit of happiness. These are the very rights that must be violated for continuity of corporate/government. Belief in human rights as inalienable makes people hard to govern.  

Human rights remain on the table, but property rights are incontrovertible. Even the poorest peasant, the most radical revolutionary, the severest socialist, the most devoted democrat, the most fatuous philanthropist, the most nihilistic anarchist knows a sawbuck on the sidewalk belongs to SOMEbody.

Civil rights likewise are not a gift offered by civil structuring, but because without civil rights there is no civilization.

Civil rights include the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights: the right to assemble, to speak, to worship, to publish, the right to privacy, the right to equal and just treatment, the right to participate, the right to retain non-delineated rights. Civil government is constituted to uphold and protect these civil rights. When instead a government violates these rights it changes from civil to criminal.

Criminal governments routinely disobey constitutional limitations on their power.

It is often said government has stripped away the People’s rights, but that is impossible. Don’t believe it. Rights are an idea, which once conceptualized cannot be abridged, confiscated or terminated. Rights can only be upheld, or violated. They say police have the right to download your device, corporations have the right to vote, and the government has the right to spy on anyone. But police, corporations and governments cannot have rights because they are not people, they are pests. This truth is self evident: We The People have a right to use pesticides.

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