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All I’m saying is what our Founding Fathers said in the Declaration of Independence and elsewhere in their writings; that all individuals are of infinite and therefore equal value, and that all are therefore endowed by their Creator with equal rights (defended by equal law) to life, liberty and creative pursuit of happiness.

“Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights (along with the majority), which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” Thomas Jefferson

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Thomas Jefferson

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0100.htm

Osama bin Laden gave up his rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness on 9/11/01 – he no longer possesses equal rights. Stephen Hawking, not being a mass-murderer, still possesses his equal rights.

A randomly-chosen wino from the streets of NYC possesses equal infinite value with the high-achieving professional and thereby equal rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The wino has equal rights to the Neurosurgeon but he obviously did not exercise his right to creatively pursue happiness – equal rights naturally results in unequal outcome. I never said all men are created with rights to equal economic and social outcome – that is an irrational, society-destroying Marxist idea. A “right” to so-called “Equal Outcome” fully depends on unequal rights to property (pursuit of happiness) and unequal property (tax) law – the laboring, tax-paying middle class with inferior property rights – the lazy, tax-eating Marxist ruling class and the lazy, tax-eating Proletariat class with superior property rights.

“The proletariat (non-disabled poor) will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital (property) from the bourgeoisie (middle class), to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state (Marxist Government)… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic (unequal) inroads on the rights of property.” Karl Marx

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

The “Equal Outcome” of course is an Orwellian lie. There will of necessity be a superior class of not-to-be-equalized equalizers – the Pigs of Animal Farm – superior in rights – superior before law – superior in social and economic outcome.

“It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called “abolition of private property” (Communist Manifesto) meant in effect the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before… In the years following the Revolution it (The Socialist Party of Oceania) was able to step into this commanding position almost un-opposed because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization… It had always been assumed that if the Capitalist Class were expropriated Socialism must follow… Factories, mines, land, houses, transport, everything had been taken away from them; and since these things were no longer private property it followed that they must be public property. Ingsoc (Socialist Principles of Oceania), which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist program with the result; foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.” George Orwell – 1984

You are obviously not an American because you do not think like an American.