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Following on Henry's point:
Like Civil Rights marchers trying to overturn segregation?
Or labor organizers protesting for an 8 hour work day?
Or Seventh Day Adventists trying to avoid being forced to work on their Sabbath?
Or the Scottsboro Boys asking for something that resembles due process law in a southern courtroom?
Prof. Gutzman writes: "My analysis is that most
people who find themselves invoking rights do so for unsavory reasons (to
get away with murdering an ex-wife, say, as in O.J.'s case), and that's
what we should expect; after all, it's the political/moral minority that
has to fall back on rights talk."
That's a rather sweeping statement. Would you apply it to the gun rights
folks who just won the big decision? Not a hostile question; merely asking.
Henry Wiencek
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