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Entry: Addicted to Guilt Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/addicted_to_guilt#2579 Post contents: 1. <i> “The Declaration has no legal or normative status for the American government”</i>. Well, it sure wasn’t legal, and that was the point. It certainly was normative, not for the government (what Gringos mean by The State), but for the governed; for The Declaration tells the conditions under which the law may be suspended or broken, and by whom (the governed). Call it the USA version of Carl Schmitt’s exception-ism and decisionism. The Supreme Court is the <i>Hüter der Verfassung.</i>. The Declaration answers the question <i>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?</i> 2. Rights, unalienable or alienable , are always three terms, always corresponds to duties, and always involve a question of physical compulsion; to wit: A has a right to compel B to provide C; and thus B has a duty to provide A with C. Rights are not two terms. Everyone from libertarians to Hallmarxists forgets this. The Declaration says when the right-holders may coerce Leviathan. 3. “All men are created equal” only in the sense that each is entitled to what he is due. By the way, Personalist philosophy, popular with European Christian Democrats and with the previous Pope, understands “what is due” better than Locke or Marx. 4. If “to judge not by the color of skin but by content of character” was the goal, then we sure didn’t reach it! We are more race-obsessed than ever in our national history, be we members of the National Alliance (and I don’t be an Italian political party) or the Mickey Marx Club. Sad. Sent at: 2008 05 16