Dee:

"Dee Flint" wrote in message Still it is an
important distinction that it is in the Declaration of
Independence but not in the Constitution. And is it important to
understand
the differences in their purposes.


Yes indeed. There are two (in fact more) documents protecting our
rights and agreeing people are the true power, and NOT governments.

The Declaration was designed to explain to the world why the colonies
wished
to separate themselves from England. It was intended to elicit
sympathy and


Yes, and they did a very fine job of it. Indeed, I have not seen many
papers which make humanity the reason for its arguments, and individual
rights in particular. Some now wish to find reasons to weaken these
premises and arguments, strange how societies can never rid themselves
of fools destined to repeat the same mistakes ...

On the other hand, the Constitution was designed to define how we were
actually going to govern ourselves. The rhetoric of the Declaration is
inappropriate


Absolutely NOT, while kings, rulers, dictators, powerful corporations,
the wealthy, and the mentally challenged might confuse rights with
rhetoric, those whose ancestral line runs back to these time, and the
traditions carried forth to this time have no such confusions. There is
no rhetoric in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is not
rhetoric in "God given rights." There is no rhetoric in being secure in
person and property. You give me nightmares in the type of world you
would allow to come. I only hope you never run for office, even dog
catcher would worry me in your case! (however, you are probably a nice
person)

Let us take liberty as a very simple example. If that were included
in the
Constitution as an "unalienable" right, we wouldn't be able to lock up
serial killers.


Preposterous, that is like arguing liberty = murder. We all have
absolute liberty, granted by our creator, we govern ourselfs in its use.
The people have that right, the government does not, unless it serves
as only a tool of the people in doing so. There is much confusion here,
laws do NOT give us rights and/or liberty, they only serve to remove or
control those. Before we apply law, we are only governed by our
creator, and he has given us all free will.

Let's also take that "pursuit of happiness" in terms of radio spectrum


We all also have unlimited rights to the pursuit of happiness, limits on
those pursuits are simply when they deprive another of exercising their
rights to such pursuits. A child learns this early in school, a finer
tutoring includes sharing ... if we deny others what we have,
especially though little tests and requirements as a policy of picking
and choosing "who we want to play with", we are NOT maintaining order,
we are screwing people, plain and simple, in fact only a simple person
would have difficultly seeing through that rubbish.

No Dee, you are simply another, "The sky is falling!", decrier. No Dee,
the sky is not falling, some are simply made a prisoner to their own
fears, fears which lead them into depriving other Americans of their
rights--in so doing, the "champions of justice" end up becoming the evil
which controls, deprives, and punishes people who do not think as they
do. These groups have come and gone through our history.

Open your eyes, todays world is much different than the one which you
were born into. Today you can call anywhere in the world from anywhere,
if you are even in most remote areas a cell phone allows you such
access; if that fails, there are satellite phone. Today, the internet
will let you converse to anyone anywhere in the world, allow you to view
and access materials anywhere in the world or share any such materials
to anyone, anywhere in the world.

In this world, amature radio tries to keep itself isolated as an island,
a religious club of fanatic devotes with far too many decrying the sky
is falling ... the sky is not falling ... radio is dying.

The good news is, much awaits amateur radio's future from its' ashes.
From those ashes will spring forth a service which will bear little
resemblance to the old, antique and outdated practices of the past.

It is an exciting time to be alive ...

Warmest regards,
JS