You have the right to. . . . . . . .

[ZooFuzz]

We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold thes e truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.



ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.


ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.


ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes. (This one is my pet peeve...get an education and go to work....don't expect everyone else to take care of you!)


ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.


ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.


ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.


ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)


ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.


ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from! (Lastly....)


ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!





PS:
Three Things to Ponder:

1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments

C O W S
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow
epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost
three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington ? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are
unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country.
Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq . Why don't we
just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, . . . and we're not using it anymore.

T H E 1 0 C O M M A N D M E N T S
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this: You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt
Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

[Gator96]

:hail: So true!!!

[Lakal]

Someone sent me the Bill of Non Rights recently but I also received this as well - The Bill of Responsibilities - I think it is pretty well written and makes some good points.



Bill of Responsibilities:

Article I: If you live in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comhttp://www.friendsofsc.com/forums/ /><st1:country-region w:st=<st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, you, like me, are almost certainly one of the wealthiest people in the world. There are people wealthier than us, and people less wealthy than us. We should remember, as we try to make ourselves wealthier, that everyone else is trying to do the same. We shouldn’t try to interfere with their efforts, and we should forgive their frustration if they do not make the progress they hope for. We will probably have similar frustrations.

Article II: We have a right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. While we have a right to these freedoms, the government has a responsibility to abstain from certain kinds of expression, particularly religious expression. We should not try to use the government to promote our own religion. We should remember that in certain times and places, our expressions may be inappropriate and offensive to some. We still have the right to make them, but we should consider whether we have a responsibility to be respectful of others.

Article III: If we make a living by marketing products or services to the public, we have a responsibility to make them reasonably safe to use for their intended function, and to reduce and/or inform consumers of potential hazards from our product or service, if we are aware of them. There are such things as frivolous lawsuits, and even unjust judgments from juries and judges on these lawsuits. The system should be improved, but that doesn’t mean we should be immunized from all responsibility. Unfortunately, we hear a lot more about the relatively few cases of abuse of our judicial system, and very little about its successful use. We shouldn’t take for granted the system that protects us by enforcing those responsibilities.

Article IV: We have a responsibility in this, the most prosperous nation of the world, to be certain that everyone – especially the children - have access to adequate shelter and to adequate and nutritious meal. We should not pat ourselves on the back for our own generosity when we are barely meeting our responsibilities.

Article V: In this, the most prosperous nation of the world, we should take responsibility to be certain that everyone – especially the children – have access to basic health care. It works in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, Europe, and even tiny <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Costa Rica</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We cannot call ourselves civilized while we consider a $300 a year tax cut more important than basic medical care for our society’s children.

Article VI: We have a responsibility to keep our justice system just. Revenge may feel good, but justice means making things right. That can mean restoring something that was lost, or preventing future harm, through reforming those who behave unjustly, quarantining from society, and/or deterring them. The death penalty may serve a just purpose, but too often we find ourselves executing innocent people, minors, and the mentally retarded. A humane society has a responsibility to do the deepest kind of soul searching before employing a death penalty.

Article VII: We have a responsibility to keep our incarceration system just. Our prisons may have robbers, cheaters, drug users, and many other people who have wronged themselves are others. We may have to lock them up as part of our effort to reform them and give them an opportunity to re-enter society as good citizens. While doing so, we do have to look after their welfare. We cannot call ourselves civilized while we fail to protect our prisoners from rape or beatings from other prisoners or prison guards. Providing a humane environment for our prisoners may only be the beginning to protecting our society from further violence, but it is a start.

Article VIII: We have a responsibility, as a society, to provide the opportunity to work to every adult who is willing to work. The creation of a large unemployed class in our nation will lead to deterioration of the fabric of society. Only while everyone is working can our society keep itself safe, growing, and happy. Furthermore, every person, no matter what neighborhood they are born in, no matter what their sex, skin color, religion, or sexual orientation should have the same opportunities. Our society is founded on the equality of all individuals. This equality must include educational opportunity as well as later employment opportunity.

Article IX: We have a responsibility to respect the rights of others. If we allow ourselves to believe that the laws and the court decisions that were meant to protect those rights are “stupid and idiotic?, then someone’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is probably going to get trampled.

Article X: We are grown-ups. We have a responsibility to act like it. When we were kids on the playground, and the new kid hadn’t learned our baseball rules yet, we made him leave. As grown-ups, when the new family hasn’t learned our language yet, we may not be able to learn their language or help them learn ours, but there is no need for us to try to scream them off of the playground or out of our neighborhood. If we cannot reach out to them ourselves, we can stand aside like grownups, and allow the many others who are willing and able to reach out to them.

Article XI: We have a responsibility to understand our nation’s history and heritage. That includes the good: the bill of rights, the emancipation proclamation, and every triumph over tyranny and every advance in the quality of our society, but it also includes the bad: the extermination of Native Americans, the trail of tears, slavery, child labor, Vietnam, and many other regrettables. We have a responsibility to leave a history and heritage for our children that include more of the good, and no more of the bad. Part of that history and heritage was our nation’s founding by people of various faiths, including various denominations of Christianity, Deism and some who would today be considered “atheistic?. Part of that heritage is a separation of church and state embodied in numerous ways by our Constitution. And part of that heritage is the later addition of religious slogans to our currency, and (in the days of McCarthyism, to our Pledge of Allegiance). There will continue to be a debate about the wisdom and constitutionality of those changes. That debate is also a part of our history and heritage. Our responsibility is to carry out that debate honestly, rationally, with wisdom, and at least for me, with a large eye toward the Golden Rule.

[swampfox]

The diversity of ideas, discussed civilly, is one of our greatest strengths.

By the way, I have a right to sing the blues.

[BTDT]

Los Angeles Opens $37 Million Police Station
http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=43089





OMGGGGGGG!!!!!!

[Paul on Cressfell]

The Miranda warnings should be amended so as to give those being questioned/arrested the truth. It could go a little something like this:

"You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Even if you don't say anything, it's likely that the investigating detective/s will just make up something you allegedly said, especially if the case is weak and they need to pin it on someone.

You have the right to consult with an attorney, and if you can't afford one, one will be supplied you free of charge. Of course, as with anything, you usually get what you pay for. Hell, you'll do good if the attorney can even remember your name seeing how he or she will probably be carrying a case load of several hundred clients at any given time. You have the right to have this attorney present during any questioning, and his or her representation will probably just consist of non-stop advice of 'it's better if you take a plea now' without having looked at any of the evidence or determining whether probable cause existed to arrest you in the first place."

[anti-babble]

Actually the reading of Miranda Rights to a subject should be abolished. It should be the duty of all citizens to know the law, including those set forth in State V. Miranda.

In fact, wasn't Miranda actually an illegal immigrant that should have been deported?

[swampfox]

Sometimes I can't believe what I read here.

[anti-babble]

Miranda was not an illegal immigrant. but this excert from Wikipedia ( not the most reliable source of fact ) seems ironic.







Miranda was retried, and this time the prosecution did not use the confession but called witnesses and used other evidence. Miranda was convicted, and he served 11 years. After his release, he returned to his old neighborhood and made a modest living autographing police officers' "Miranda cards" (containing the text of the warning, for reading to arrestees). He was killed in a bar fight on January 31 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_31), 1976 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976).<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-1>[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona#cite_note-1)</SUP> The police arrested a suspect, who exercised his right to remain silent, and the case was never solved.