{"id":45639,"date":"2014-10-03T07:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/rights-are-inalienable-except-when-they-arent.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:21:38","slug":"rights-are-inalienable-except-when-they-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/rights-are-inalienable-except-when-they-arent.html","title":{"rendered":"Rights are inalienable (except when they aren&#039;t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mats Holberg has a point. You may disagree with <i>Roe v Wade,<\/i> just as others may disagree with <i>District of Columbia v Heller.<\/i> But it seems dangerous to me to treat one right as a sacred cow and the other as something to make as difficult as possible to exercise. Because tomorrow it may be turned the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/matsholberg\/status\/517870249870655489'><br \/>\n<img src='' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/matsholberg\/status\/517870249870655489'>Mats Holberg on Twitter: &#8220;Imagine the UPROAR if a court OK&#8217;d a law forcing Texans to drive hundreds of miles to buy guns they have a constitutional right to purchase.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFollow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock Pending Cancel. Mats Holberg \u200f@matsholberg 11h10 hours ago. Imagine the UPROAR if a court OK&#8217;d a law forcing Texans to drive hundreds of miles to buy guns they have a constitutional right to purchase. Reply; Retweet Retweeted; Favorite Favorited &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UNucuzQBWUT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mats Holberg has a point. You may disagree with Roe v Wade, just as others may disagree with District of Columbia v Heller. But it seems dangerous to me to treat one right as a sacred cow and the other as something to make as difficult as possible to exercise. Because tomorrow it may be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/rights-are-inalienable-except-when-they-arent.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rights are inalienable (except when they aren&#039;t)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,298,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-guns","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128254,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/whom-does-the-nra-speak-for.html","url_meta":{"origin":45639,"position":0},"title":"Whom does the NRA speak for?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-15 11:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I disagree with the conclusion of article, which says, \"The N.R.A. is no longer the voice of law-abiding gun owners, but rather a voice for criminals.\" The NRA is, in fact, a voice for gun manufacturers who are interested in maximizing sales of guns and ammunition, period. 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