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>Writes kucloak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bryan Kennedy Reed), in response
>to a complaint about Caller ID posted by chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad 
>Helfe
>nberger):

>> Just which amendment is being violated?  I assume you are saying 
>> it is a violation of the right to privacy which is a penubra right 
>> derived from the first and fouth amendments.  Just where does this 
>> violation occur?  The constitution does not give someone the right 
>> to be stupid.

Tirade mode on:

You know, every time I hear someone say "where does the Constitution 
say you have that right" I wonder what's going to become of this 
country.

I don't have to look to a piece of paper to find out what rights I
have, you see, I have *inalienable* rights. I have rights because
I'm human. The Constitution doesn't give me rights, it merely
delineates certain extremely important rights. The Constitution is
the government's license from the people to govern. It spells out
exactly what the government is allowed to do. And as it says in
the Tenth Ammendment "The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution...are reserved to the States, or to the people."

In small words: I don't have to prove I've got a right, you have to
prove I don't.

In small words: If the Constitution doesn't say the government can do
it, it can't.

In small words: If we the people did not give a power to the government
in the Constitution, the government can't do it.

So, the proper question to ask yourself when it comes to rights people
claim that are not specifically spelled out in the Constitution is not
"Where does the Constitution say that" but instead "Where does the
government get off telling me I don't have that right".
 
Tirade mode off

Thank you.

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