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Is Access to the Web a Fundamental Right?
Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 02:04 PM (141 Views)
QuirtEvans
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"Fundamental human right" is a ridiculous stretch but these days I would consider it a utility, like heat and water.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Eventually, the expanding concept of fundamental rights may expand that far.

Obama, and many others, feel that health care is a fundamental right. Just like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Some day, rights will be expanded to cover food, shelter, clothing, transportation and employment. After that, I doubt that internet access comes far behind.
Edited by Kincaid, Mar 8 2010, 03:25 PM.
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I can see a potential benefit to taking the position that access to information is a right. Knowledge is power. People who have knowledge of something better are unlikely to stay satisfied with a substandard status quo. Take Iran for example. China. The internet scares their regimes to death.
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Of course. I remember reading an elegant treatment of the subject in one of Madison's letters to John Jay.
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jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:38 PM
Of course. I remember reading an elegant treatment of the subject in one of Madison's letters to John Jay.
Right after the paragraph on healthcare, right? :lol2:
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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:39 PM
Right after the paragraph on healthcare, right?
And before the paragraph about undeclared wars initiated by the executive branch.
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jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:41 PM
George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:39 PM
Right after the paragraph on healthcare, right?
And before the paragraph about undeclared wars initiated by the executive branch.
That's right.

JFK and LBJ, obviously, didn't read that paragraph.

Nor did Truman.
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You're misunderestimating the number of presidents who missed that bit.
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jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:46 PM
You're misunderestimating the number of presidents who missed that bit.
I know.

By at least two.

(honest question here, since you brought it up)

Were there congressional authorizations on use of force in Korea and VietNam? Of course, they were funded, but were those actions explicitly voted on by Congress?
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jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:38 PM
Of course. I remember reading an elegant treatment of the subject in one of Madison's letters to John Jay.
They had teh internetz?
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George K
Mar 8 2010, 03:48 PM
(honest question here, since you brought it up)

Were there congressional authorizations on use of force in Korea and VietNam? Of course, they were funded, but were those actions explicitly voted on by Congress?
they weren't declared. THere was the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but that's not a declaration. Korea didn't have even that (hence the phrase 'police action')
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Mikhailoh
Mar 8 2010, 03:49 PM
jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:38 PM
Of course. I remember reading an elegant treatment of the subject in one of Madison's letters to John Jay.
They had teh internetz?
I was being some fecus facetious.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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K. I thought maybe Al Gore invented a time machine and took it to them.
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jon-nyc
Mar 8 2010, 03:51 PM
THere was the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but that's not a declaration.
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The resolution passes unanimously in the House, and by a margin of 82-2 in the Senate. The Resolution allows Johnson to wage all out war against North Vietnam without ever securing a formal Declaration of War from Congress.

Interesting.
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