Senator Frank Lautenberg: GOP Doesn't Deserve Constitutional Freedoms

By Douglas V. Gibbs

"The Republicans in Congress claim they’re concerned about the budget balance, but it’s a disguise! It’s not true! It’s a lie! That’s not what they want. They want — they want other people not to be able to have their own opinions. They don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution! But we’ll give it to them anyway." -- Senator Frank Lautenberg

Lautenberg is a great example of the liberal left line of thinking. The leftist Senator claims Republicans want to outlaw opinions, therefore they deserve to have their Constitutional rights stripped of them.

In other words, a Democrat backed centralized government should have the power to do exactly what he accuses Republicans of desiring.

What Lautenberg fails to recognize is that rights are not something that government has the right to give, or take away. It is not up to people like him to decided who deserves rights to free speech. In fact, that is the whole point of the First Amendment, which disallows the federal government from taking away rights to free speech (among other things).

The Constitution is not something that the Congress can decide to grant, or not grant. The Constitution limits the powers of the government so that they don't do something like Lautenberg is suggesting.

It was because of political elitists like Lautenberg that the Constitution was written in the manner it was. The kind of idiots like Lautenberg were exactly what the Constitution was trying to restrain.

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