This hurts our cause by distracting attention from the things we can say that are more clear. We must prioritize better. It's also good for chapters to work actively on these projects under the CPSR name. We must think and act strategically if we're to have any real effect. If our message is clear and simple so that it is easily and often repeated, it might eventually sink in.
Goals are things that require investment.
In this view, free speech, privacy, and access to existing information are things that can be rights. Education is an example of something that can only be a goal and never a right by this definition, except insofar as self-education through access to public information facilities like libraries is a right. Libraries, however, are something that can never be a right since they actively require resources to create and maintain. Failure to achieve a goal must not be an automatic crime because the best of intentions combined with inadequate resources might not be enough to ensure that a goal is achieved. For discussion purposes, I suggest three such criteria here.