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More Constitutional redefinitions from Obama, our Constitutional Lecturer

of the Constitution?Rights, Privileges, Entitlements.  Negative Rights, Positive Rights, Social Justice, Redistributive Justice (and the newest one, Climate / Environmental Justice).

I bookmarked this last week when it appeared on Constitution Day but didn’t get a round tuit at that time.  When I saw this, it was “replace gasket” time.  For our President to make such a blatant redefinition of what the US Constitution stand for, all I could do was sigh and go ‘@($&%&#*’, just another example of ‘Freedom to Worship” instead of the true words and meaning of the First Amendment”:

“Our Constitution reflects the values we cherish as a people and the ideals we strive for as a society.  It secures the privileges we enjoy as citizens, but also demands participation, responsibility, and service to our country and to one another.”

Such GOBBLEDEGOOK!  It really says nothing of the sort.  Obama has complained in the past that  Constitution (and the Supreme Court in its decisions) has not gone far enough in promulgating “redistributive rights” – the ersatz “right” that government, in an effort to be fair (e.g., IMHO, put everyone at the lowest common denominator so no one is any better than anyone else), has the not just the right but the obligation to take from many and give their property to others (and yes, money is property).

These are no slip of the tongue, no flowery words for an occasion.   These are deliberately written and spoken to send a message.  So if you can’t win legislatively, change the electorate by using 1984 Doublespeak – change the definition of our language which then changes the ideas and the underlying philosophy. We have watched the Left do this over and over again by bastardizing the original meanings of words for their political agenda.  “Freedom of

Expression” from the First Amendment becomes “Freedom of worship” – one keeps government from affecting how religious values show in your life / behavior all of the time and the ability to share and talk about that in any and all cases in public life while the latter severely diminishes that Right to be merely who you are and how you act only in private – your home and in a house of worship (and the “your home” bit is also under attack).

By changing Rights that accrue to you for simply being alive (I wrote about Rights here during the time that the Occupy Wall Street movement was alive) to mere Privileges, Obama is trying to accomplish the transformation that Government can be in charge.  Rights are inviolate – they exist outside of Government and, in fact, the Constitution is supposed to protect those Rights.  When downgraded to mere Privilege, makes the subtle distinction of what you have by right of birth to one of what the Government thinks is right for you – or it.  The former cannot be taken away (although it can be suppressed), the latter can change on a whim.  One says that the Individual is in charge – the other says that Government is taking charge.

Obama also makes another totally false statement in trying to change us from a Constitutional Republic where Free Individuals have a Government to a more Communitarian democracy where the Government owns us: “but also demands participation, responsibility, and service to our country and to one another.”  The logic here is that if the Constitution defines our government, and we “are the Government” (there’s that Democrat mantra of “Government is what we all belong to” again – with the Government being of foremost importance), it must also DEMAND our behavior (yup, right on cue: “NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior““).

Therefore, we are commanded by his view of Government to do the things he (as head of government) decrees.  We should have no choice but to participate, we should have no choice to serve our country (again, changing the most fundamental relationship between the American people and its government – who serves who, who is the Master and who is the servant?) and we should have no choice in serving others.  In other words, simply no choice.

And remember, choice is the quantification of the Freedom we have.  Reduced choice is reduced Freedom.  Not quite my definition of what Free People is, now, is it?

The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen

(H/T: Washington Post, White House)

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