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Originally Posted by Brutha  I'm speaking about legal rights.
The beingness of a dog also gives he dog certain natural rights but the dog has no legal standing to heard at a court when some goverment imprisons it.
To have that legal right you have to be a legal person. |
The base of our laws (USA, Canada, and probably Austrailia and NZ is English Common Law. To break the law you harm another human being, damage someone else's property, or use fraud in contracts. That's about it. If you are a free man, that's all you answer to. All the other stuff we call law is actually statutes and acts, which are not law. It effects persons (corporations) not free people. Your name in all caps on your driver's license is your "person" -- a false self that you use when dealing with the legal system, permits, etc... You use this fake self by choice (you are not forced to get a driver's license) but forget we are free to travel without one.
[this is a mirror of how consciousness uses denial to think it is separate: the ego, the false self, the I am so and so]
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Originally Posted by Brutha So they are responsible for being imprisoned because they gave their rights away? |
Their current situation is a mirror to an imprisonment happening inside themselves.
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Originally Posted by Brutha To be a slave you need to have a master. Most of those who are imprisoned in Guantamo would see Allah as their master and not the US goverment.
The US goverment also doesn't claim such a master-slave relationship. It's war against people without legal rights. |
I call them slaves because they can't just walk away. They have a master IMO, and it is not themselves, it is our government. They are making someone outside themselves the creator of their experience. We should look at them and say, "my gosh, look what happens when I give my power away, I can move so little and it appears I'm not free."