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* things you think of as laws are in fact statutes and have no power over you unless you give them power over you
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But at the same time those laws give you rights.
Without being a person (in that sense) you have no legal rights.
Those people in Guantamo have a similar status.
No laws have power over them as long as they aren't legal people.
In general the advantages (having rights) of being a person outweigh the disadvantages (having duties).
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Worse yet is when they find out, people choose to ignore all things written by or under his name in the letters that were continuously published for over a decade... Sure, racial hate is alive and well in America... It is disgusting...
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Everyone makes errors (like Hillary's war votes).
It's politics. The important thing is that he publically distanced himself from the letters.
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I doubt that he can get a single vote from non-white, non-christian demographic...
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Having the
NAACP President say that he is no racist is probably enough for a lot of those blacks to accept him if they agree with his other issues.