ACLU candidate scorecard: Gary Johnson 1st, Obama 3rd, and conservatives hostile to liberty

[JackRiddler]

24. An honest statement of divide and conquer, at least.

It's a degenerately instrumental view of politics to set up an unnecessary and bogus competition between inalienable human rights and declare that some (such as those protected by the habeas corpus clause and the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments) are dispensable, as long as others you "value" more highly are protected. In this you're acknowledging to be no different than what you accuse Ron Paul of doing (valuing only those rights that are important to him and his group or class).

I value reproductive rights as derived from the 9th amendment, and all civil rights -- those protected by the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as well as those protected by the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as those derived since then through case law and after the many struggles and sacrifices of the people for equality and justice in social and economic spheres.

Whereas, just as you accuse of Ron Paul (more or less correctly), you seem to value those rights that seem vital to your political goals, and have now suggested you don't care who is trampled if you don't think their rights are important to those goals.