From: best@anasazi.com (Mike Best)
Subject: Re: Are Republicans Evil?
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:04:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.193258.17543@ncmicro.lonestar.org> ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:
>In article <Bttupu.E6H@acsu.buffalo.edu> mjb@acsu.buffalo.edu (Matthew J. Bernhardt) writes:
>}lazarus@wixer.cactus.org (Michael Lax) writes:
>}
>}>Huh?  What are "lifestyle" rights?  The Constitution mentions "Life, Liberty
>}>and the pursuit of Happiness."
>}
>}	Nowhere in the Constitution does the phrase "Life, Liberty and the
>}pursuit of Happiness" appear.  You are quoting instead from the Declaration
>}of Independence, a document that has no legal force.
>
>Well, one could argue that it does have quite a bit of moral force.  Certainly
>quite a bit more than the Pledge of Allegiance, which the Republicans (and
>Democrats, for that matter) choose to recite at the beginning of all their
>functions.  Certainly, the Republicans seem to enjoy the bit about 
>"One Nation, Under God", and use it quite a bit in their speeches...
>pity they don't seem to listen to part about "Liberty and Justice for ALL".
>
Gag! Lance, you have really misrepresented Republicans by implying that 
they don't believe in "Liberty and Justice for ALL".  It is more correct
to describe of Republicans (than Democrats) that they believe in an
_impartial_ society where the law is blind to the ethnicity/religion/etc
of the _individual.  Take into account the reluctance by Republicans to
endorse employment quotas based on race and contrast that to the Democrats.
The Republicans believe that individuals have rights, not groups. 

The Democrats, on the other hand, believe fully in group rights
(Homosexual, Women, Blacks, and so on).  The Founders were unquestionably
of the opinion that they were describing INDIVIDUAL rights.  The Democrats
are trying to use "group rights" to achieve their goal to make us all 
equal in the end (yuck).  In this regard they are out of step with the
thinking of the Founders.  Group rights make some people more equal than
others, it makes one think that because one is a woman that their rights
are more important than someone else who is NOT a member of that group.

The Founders wrote of liberty as an individual right, one which is derived
from the nature of man.  The Democrats, by proliferating the falsehood
of group rights, have concluded instead that individuals have only such
rights as the STATE gives them!  For such people, rights come from the
State and not from the nature of man.  Such people are not free, independent
and self-determining.  Liberty and Justice for ALL does not apply to 
Democrats because there is NO justice when one standard is applied to one
group under the law (e.g. Blacks and quotas) and not to everyone.  The
result is to tribalize society as we think in terms of which "group"
we belong to.

I object to the Democrats because they have foresaken the concept of 
individual rights, the greatest gift of the enlightenment and perhaps
of all of human history.  It has freed man to acheive greatness and
you, Lance, are simply not thinking in the same terms as the Founders.


Mike Best {mcdphx|asuvax}!anasaz!best

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