Quote:"We need to be pragmatic and come up with real solutions.”
We have a real solution, and it IS a pragmatic one. You say what you want, and let me think for myself and figure out if it's factual.
Ketanji Brown has no damned business on the Supreme Court if that's the way she thinks. The Supreme Court is tasked with deciding issues of Constitutionality. In order to do that, one must have some idea of how the Constitution functions. The Bill of Rights, for example, does not confer any rights at all on the government. it's entire reason for existing is to put restrictions on the government, to restrict it from trying to interfere with YOUR rights.
So, the government cannot lean on a private business in order to force it to do things the government is not allowed to do. Now that business can decide on it's own to restrict free speech, because the First Amendment restricts government, not private entities. BUT the government cannot lean on a private entity to get it to do things the government cannot, because in doing so, they make that entity a government agent, as it is acting on government's behalf, as a proxy. When that happens, the private entity is suddenly bound by the same restrictions that the government is, because it is acting in the government's stead.It effectively becomes an arm of government by virtue of acting on government's orders.
These are not opinions, they are facts dictated by logic and reasoning.
Mr. Beck was slightly incorrect in hi definition of "inalienable" "inalienable" simply means that your rights cannot be alienated from you - they cannot be separated from your being. It has nothing to do with "changing" or "altering" rights, it just means that your rights are a part of you, cannot be separated from you. Changing or altering rights necessarily involves separating them from the individual, so it all really boils down to separating or "alienating" your rights from you person. The same use of "alienate" is found in the legal phrase "alienation of affections" - separating one from the affections of another. It's all just a matter of separation.
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