‘Real News From The Blaze:’ Left Attacks Paul Ryan for Discussing Natural Rights
- Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:18pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Mitt Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan to be his running mate launched speculation that the campaign would shift to a real debate on policy, and there has been indication that it still will, but at the first announcement of the pick some opponents of the Wisconsin congressman immediately began their campaign to discredit and demagogue Ryan’s philosophy.
During coverage of Ryan’s first speech as the vice presidential candidate, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry added to her resume of controversial on-air remarks when she criticized Ryan for daring to quote the Declaration of Independence in his speech when declaring rights come from God and nature, and not from government.
“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” said Harris-Perry Saturday. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”
Harris-Perry’s race-related criticism of Ryan for quoting a fundamental idea, upon which the entire nature of the U.S. government rests, has been met with media and public disapproval.
On “Real News From The Blaze” Tuesday, the panel was joined by Dr. Joseph Laconte of Kings College to explain why debate around this idea, that our rights are from God and nature, could spell trouble for the future of the nation should people ever see Government as the ultimate dispensor of rights. Watch a clip below:
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frosbite
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:21pmWe have a Bill of Rights…..given by God to our fore fathers that they could put them out in public for the world to see…Be aware this is not a bill of pretty good ideas government is letting us enjoy till they take them. These are God given rights worth dieing for, or worth overthrowing the government for…government ought to be mindful of just how thin the ice they walk on is
Report Post »RiseLiberty
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:19pmRemember, the liberal/left government wants to give you everything so they will have the power to take it back or ration, if needbe. This whole thing is about power. The liberal mantra is defeated if that power is assigned to God. That’s why the very concept of a living God is anathema to the whoring liberal left. It’s gotten so bad actually, they shouldn’t be called democrats anymore. It’s a much more sinister organization now. They need a new name.
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:40amWell now, the use of the “Nature Rights” did raise my eyebrows, but, at least Paul got it half-right! Choose the Right Road.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:46amLibs dont know God, they might think they do, but they dont. You can tell by the way they live and what they believe in. Mrs. Perry (I dont use hyphenated names, her last name is Perry PERIOD), probably never read the constitution! ALL laws come from GOD, that is called FREEDOM. If you go by mans laws eventually it will lead to tyranny, as we are seeing right before our eyes.
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:14amWell Miss. Harris-Perry, you seem to be intruperting the constitution. How did you get wealth white guy out of pursuit of happiness. You’re a numbskull.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:03amJust another secular militant liberal with a hyphenated last name. Probably a lesbian too.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:44amOh, Yeah…WE CAN’T say anything about GOD, BUT- THE LEFT & ATHEIST LOONS
CAN SAY ALL THEY WANT AGAINST GOD AND WORK TO REMOVE GOD’ AND HIS
NAME FROM EVERYTHING….YEAH, RIGHT!
Oh, WAIT!
AND – NOW they are trying to convince us,
OBAMA’S SOCIALIST PLAN …that we ALL see clearly…
WE AREN’T SEEING IT, AT ALL!
That LEFT HAND is working again…BETTER WATCH IT.
Mr. Magic has worked HIS SPELL ON THEM…
Now THEY want to TRY IT ON US, huh?
OK…AND GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:33amThe pathway to solving these problems and more starts with getting liberals out of government everywhere. Stay focused and it will happen.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:04amYou know non believers believe in natural rights too.
Report Post »Corneo
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:08amWeather you are atheist or religious, both groups agree in the existence of natural laws. (exampled would be: for every action is an opposite and equal re-action) The argument between the two is how were natural laws created.
Report Post »People will always fight over this because natural laws dictate that a person has the right to “choose or make a choice” and they choose to fight over this.
FireRose
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:19amI am convinced that the primary reason the Left would be offended by the idea of undeniable natural rights given by God is because they have always wanted the power to deny rights. That is what happened with the old Southern Democrats, that’s how it is with Liberalism, that’s how it is with Socialism, and that’s how it is with Communism. They want the ability to say “You earn too much, so give some back to us.” By doing so, they acquire the ability to guide every aspect of one’s life. The Right pointing out natural rights says “No, you cannot take what is mine because it is mine and I have power over my own life.”
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:29amSo question – how do you define what’s “yours”? What’s your definition of ownership?
Report Post »travlman77
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:32amYou are correct, people need to understand that government does not have the ability to give you anything. Government can only regulate or deprive you of your “Natural Rights”
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:11am“And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” ~ John F. Kennedy
JFK was a Democrat, but that was before the Democrat Party was infiltrated by the Communists.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:22amIf the Democrats were truly infiltrated by Communists, you’d have a lot bigger problems on your hands than mild alterations to health insurance law.
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:35am@vox_populi
“If the Democrats were truly infiltrated by Communists, you’d have a lot bigger problems on your hands than mild alterations to health insurance law”
They are, and we do………..
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:35pmIt’s good to remember that: John F. Kennedy hated Communists!
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:20amPaul Ryan’s “natural rights”…
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CISPA
Report Post »UNCONSTITUTIONAL TARP (which ignited the Tea Party AGAINST HIM)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Auto Bailouts
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Economic Stimulus 2008
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Economic Stimulus 2009
Debt ceiling hikes
Comprehensive immigration reform without amnesty (AMNESTY)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL ending the “gun show loophole”
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Socialized employment (extending UC)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Socialized education (No Child Left Behind)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Socialized medicine (Medicare Prescription Drug “benefits”)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Socialized housing (Section 8 vouchers)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Head Start
UNCONSTITUTIONAL “Patriot” Act
UNCONSTITUTIONAL NDAA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL Nation-building
MORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL nation-building
UNCONSTITUTIONAL H.R. 347 (protest chilling)
noland
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:52amGo wash your neck!
Report Post »ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:33amBrother finally makes a shouting rant that makes some sense
Report Post »BODYBAG
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:15am@MBRIZ
“I love how scared of socialism you simple wing nuts are.”
Tell your boss there in chicago that you need to leave your cubicle to go scratch your wing nuts
Report Post »noland
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:54amAnd you can go suck an egg!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:02amAnd yet they think joe Biden is a genius……..go figure.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:45pmSome one will always say,“Blacks did not have right until the government gave them to them” Well No.
Report Post »They had the rights .They were just denied.
woodyee
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:38pm“Left Attacks Paul Ryan for Discussing Natural Rights”
…naturally, because all Rights come from them? With a bullet…
The dead Ted Kennedy did the same to Clarence Thomas, on top of smearing Thomas’ good name for being Black and Conservative. Slo-Joe biden came out of his racist closet today and implored Blacks in his audience to vote Gaybama or Romney would put them “back in chains”.
I’m not voting for no Leftist, and I sure as there is a sky up above am NEVER voting for a Racist, nor the DemonicRat Party for condoning Racists!
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:47amEvery Dictator was elected by the democrat party, soooooo , go figure.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:18pmBarnhardt crushes the relavancy of “forward” and electoral hopes in today’s blog.
Our rights do and will come from nature and nature’s God.
It’s called the law of sowing and reaping. Sow to the wind and reap the whirlwind.
The whirlwind is headed our way.
We don’t need “rights” now. What is our “right”, now, is judgment. We need mercy.
http://barnhardt.biz/
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:06pmAll rights exist. The only question is whether the government will honor the rights of all people, or trample on the rights of some people. We do not need the government, as the Left would say, to insure that everyone’s rights are respected. We need the government to stop disrespecting our rights. The more government we have to enforce rights, the fewer rights we all share.
It‘s said that the right to swing my fist ends at the tip of the other man’s nose. The only question of natural rights and individual sovereignty is where do those boundaries, a la fist and nose, lie? It is only in the exploration of the boundaries of our rights that government has a legitimate role. When the government creates a “right” of one person which is founded on the services and goods of another, then they have just trampled on the rights of the provider of those services and goods.
A right to health care is the right to enslave health care workers and benefit from their medical labour without their engagement in the process of negotiating the terms of their labour. The right to home ownership is the right to enslave home builders and benefit from their manual labour without their engagement in the process of negotiating the terms of their labour.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:42pmAs they say in South Central Los Angeles – You be brilint, brilan, no, britle, no – really smart!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:04amTh- than- th- thank y- tha- th-…
Much obliged.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:22am“A right to health care is the right to enslave health care workers and benefit from their medical labour without their engagement in the process of negotiating the terms of their labour. The right to home ownership is the right to enslave home builders and benefit from their manual labour without their engagement in the process of negotiating the terms of their labour.”
Do we not still pay medical workers? Do we not still pay home builders? Is the right to peace and security and enslavement of police officers and the military? I don’t think so…
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:02amIt’s not a question of pay or not pay. It’s a question of the right to decide for themselves the terms of their labour. If someone else has a right to that labour, then they have no right to determine its terms.
We have no right to police protection. Numerous court cases, most of the SCOTUS, has said so. The police have absolutely no affirmative duty to protect any specific individual. They are there for the security of society as a whole/in general. We are an all-volunteer military, and even in wartime like now, anyone can get out at any time by simply being a bad soldier. They knew the job was dangerous when they took it.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:46am“We have no right to police protection.”
Regardless, the police remain publicly-run and whose service is free at the point of delivery. It is functionally identical to any other publicly provided service.
“We are an all-volunteer military, and even in wartime like now, anyone can get out at any time by simply being a bad soldier.”
And what? If we had a public healthcare system, you wouldn’t ever be able to get out of being a doctor? Nonsense, you would still choose whether or not you wanted to be a medical professional, and you could change your mind at any time.
“It’s a question of the right to decide for themselves the terms of their labour.”
Well frankly, that’s what unions are for.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:59pmMSNBC, do they still have viewers? I mean really? Can not America reconize how un-American the mainstream media has become? I’m reminded of an old, old saying, “Give judice enough rope and he will hang himself”.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:52pmWhat do you expect from hedonists and devients?
Report Post »Neely711
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:48pmWhen the yard signs go up in October, we will be able to identify the Socialists and the Patriots.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:36pmMine is up now…Obama/Biden 2012 – the sign of the Patriots.
Report Post »Not Vulture/Voucher 2012 – the sign of the bought and paid for.
mbriz
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:46am…me too.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:22amMore like Socialists or Fascists.
Report Post »resme
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:05am“Mine is up now…Obama/Biden 2012 – the sign of the Patriots.
Not Vulture/Voucher 2012 – the sign of the bought and paid for.”
Sorry, Dude. Both Obama and Romney are bought and paid for. They may talk different but their voting records are so similar. Democrats talk anti-war, But vote for war… Republicans talk about cutting spending, But vote for spending.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:35pmShouldn’t they cite their sources when they paraphrase Karl Marx?
Report Post »Impenitent
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:28pmwho are you going to believe? the words you read in the declaration or a propagandist for socialism?
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:49amI love how scared of socialism you simple wing nuts are.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:50ammbriz
I love how accepting of Socialism you leftwingnut are.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:32am@ Mbriz
It is not socialism that people are scared of, it’s what socialism inevitably turns into.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:12am@Mbriz, How can you watch Europe falling appart because of socialism and not fear it happening here? Do you think we’ll be better at it or something?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 10:25pmHe is 100% right about natural rights. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to ensure the government adhered to natural law. Progressives on both sides of the isle want to remove this limitation on their power. If Ryan’s actions matched his rhetoric (specifically voting away our rights with those evil post 9/11 bills) I’d be hammering away at the message boards supporting him too.
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