Web buttons appear in the footer section of every page on Off on a Tangent to advocate certain essential principles. The buttons on the current version of the website are:
Don’t Tread on Me
Every human being is endowed by God, nature, or evolution with three unalienable human rights. They are, in order of priority, life, liberty, and property.
These rights may only be encroached upon by governments to least extent necessary to prevent encroachment upon the human rights of others. If rights are in direct conflict, higher rights take precedence over lower ones.
The saying “Don’t Tread on Me” paired with an image of a rattlesnake dates to the American revolutionary war. It represented Americans’ desire to live free from government overreach and tyranny. Me must reassert our rights; we must prevent our governments from attempting to exert any powers that have not been granted to them by the affirmative consent of the people through written constitutions.
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A Rhyme on Human Rights
Theodor Reik, a German psychoanalyst, once said, “It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.”
The early days of American independence were stained by the institution of slavery. It was a horrific injustice to treat human beings as property, and to improperly elevate some people’s property rights over others’ higher liberty rights. That institution was eventually dismantled . . . at great cost.
Today, our nation is stained by the institution of legalized abortion. Treating human beings as worthless bio-matter is an injustice at least as horrific as slavery was. It improperly elevates some people’s liberty rights over others’ higher life rights. This institution must also be dismantled, no matter the cost. And it will be; the abolitionists—and the truth—will win.
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No Censorship
I support the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and conscience, and freedom of association.
These rights—which are liberty rights incorporated into the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment—cannot be encroached upon by any government except to the least extent necessary to protect the human rights of others.
Additionally, we should respect and accept each others’ opinions even when we think they are wrong, harmful, or hateful. We should not “punish” people merely for unpopular or controversial speech, except in extreme cases where that speech advocates, excuses, or sympathizes with criminal acts of violence, terrorism, and murder.
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- The Freedom of Speech
- The Second Right: Liberty
- Grant, Lee, and Modern Political Discourse
- The Assault on American Liberty