[FONT="]COMPETENT CITIZEN[/FONT] A Competent Citizen understands the following and conducts himself accordingly: Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities. -Ayn Rand The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. -Ayn Rand Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. -Ayn Rand An incompetent citizen does not understand, or chooses not to understand, the essence of the above quotations. Nationally known examples of incompetent citizens begin with the President of the United States; the members of the United States Congress; and the Supreme Court Justices, along with every person who has violated his oath to defend the Constitution. An human being is an end in himself. S/he is born with a measure of unalienable Rights equal and identical to that of every other person on earth. “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” –Fourteenth Amendment That’s quite clear . . . so, just how many unlawful laws are there? WE hold these Truths . . . tgsam
