There are three levels of rights in this country they are derived From our U.S. Constitution, and Declaration of Independence.
The Three levels are Individual, States Rights, and Federal Government Rights.
Lately I find that a number of people have either forgotten what those rights are or are unaware when a right is being circumvented. In this time of a pandemic, there is an expectation that the Federal Government should be telling the states what to do and how to do it. The Federal Government cannot go beyond those rights enumerated to it in the Constitution. If a Federal right is not granted to it, the Tenth Amendment, says any other function or right belongs to the States. That is, of course, with the exception of those rights that are individual rights laid out in the Bill of Rights.
It also seems that the Federal Government and other organizations are ignoring certain rights or are circumventing them. The political left, have long try to convince us that the Constitution is no longer valid, its old and stodgy, not European enough. Now it seems they just try to ignore it along with ignoring the law in situations were they think they benefit.
We are a Country of laws and rights. Without laws and rights we are no longer in a Democratic Union. We become a group of tribes each doing what they want without regard to the individual or nation.
Here are some examples of activities going on the seem to ignore the Constitution or skirt it.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (d-Texas) introduced a bill on 1/04/2021 H.R 127 called the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.
This just another approach to skirt our Second Amendment rights. It calls for the creation of a national data base of all gun owners, physiological examinations, and an annual $800 fee. The next thing we will see is an attack on the ammunition manufactures. Joe has already talked about an outlandish tax on ammunition, which again is a Democrat way of skirting the Second Amendment.
Wednesday the Blue House (White House) reportedly was considering domestic travel restrictions including Florida. As reported by the Miami Herald on Wednesday Officials with Joe’s administration said they are having conversations about anything that could help mitigate spread, including Florida travel restrictions.
On February 11, 2021:
Florida had 1.81M Covid Cases and 28,381 Deaths
California had 3.46M Covid Cases and 45,976 Deaths
California is a lock down Democrat state with almost twice as many cases and 62% more deaths. Yet we didn’t hear anything about a travel restrictions to California.
Joe has opened our southern border, yet we have not heard anything about closing that back down.
So what is going on, first it is unconstitutional for the federal government to restrict travel within the United States. Could this be another statement of Democrat retribution? Florida is a Republican state with a Republican Governor.
All summer and still today we have seen riots and destruction across this nation. On January 6th we saw an incursion on Congress. It has been reported the 5 people died in the riot. Congress has been slippery with a number of aspects of what happened and how it happened.
I have said it before, I’ll say it again what, the people did on the 6th was wrong, and they all, Left and Right need to be punished severely for there actions.
Officer Brian Sicknick died on the 6th and members of congress have said he died because he was hit in the head by a fire extinguisher. It is now being reported by his family and by Lawofficer.com that he had not sustained blunt force trauma. He reportedly died from a medical condition. Making matters more political, federal investigators announced that they are “struggling” to build a murder case against anyone in his death. Further muddying the waters no autopsy results have been released.
34-year-old Rosanne Boyland of Kennesaw, Georgia, 55-year-old Kevin Greeson of Athens, Alabama, and 50-year-old Benjamin Phillips of Ringtown, Pennsylvania, all three did of medical Conditions as reported by DC police
35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, Died from a police fired gun shot
Yet all you hear and read is five people died on the 6th and that Trump has blood on his hands. We have 7000 military inside a concertina wire cage surrounding the capital building and a select set of congress wetting their pants. The Capital Complex is the peoples Complex, it does not belong to Congress, Representatives work for the people not for some political agenda. It is pure political show.
Yet at least 25 people were killed during “protests” this summer across this country in 2020 and no one is reporting that. Pictures of a “mostly peaceful protest” have been taken with a city ablaze behind the reporter. Looting, businesses vandalized, Federal buildings vandalized, arson, muggings, areas of cities walled off and police are not allow inside. No response, just applause from the left.
Democrat lawmakers both state and federal do nothing about the 2020 riots. Saying those people have the right to free speech and the right to protest.
Neither the 6th or the riots of the summer are covered by a Constitutional right, the right given in the Constitution is to be able to “peacefully protest”. But what a different reaction to the two situations! In the riots across the country, police have been told to stand down, prosecutors have refused to prosecute, no arrests, or if an arrest is made it is followed by immediate release.
Big Tech, colleges, university and other groups have developed the cancel culture. If they don’t like what your beliefs are or what you are saying they bar you form saying anything. They bar your accounts, cancel your engagements, or shout you down.
Free Speech is a Constitutional Right, no matter your point of view or your beliefs. Here again the left refuses to recognize the Constitution.
None of this is OK, Time to push back, peacefully, write, phone, email your congress person.
Below I have listed rights by level, what each right is, and where it is derived from.
Personal Rights
From the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
From the Bill of Rights:
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Freedom of religion
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Right to petition the government
Right to bear arms
Protection against housing soldiers in civilian homes
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure
Protection against the issuing of warrants without probable cause
Protection against Trial without indictment
Protection against double jeopardy
Protection against self-incrimination
Protection against property seizure
Right to a speedy trial
Right to be informed of charges
Right to be confronted by witnesses
Right to call witnesses
Right to a legal counsel
Right to trial by jury
Protection against excessive bail
Protection against excessive fines
Protection against cruel and unusual punishment
Rights granted in the Constitution shall not infringe on other rights.
States Rights:
Powers not granted to the Federal Government in the Constitution belong to the states or the people.
Federal Government Rights:
The Federal Government derives its rights from Article I Section 8 of the Constitution:
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not excluding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.