Rights are something that one has just claim to. The fundamental characteristics of rights are natural, unalienable, sacred and consisting of simple and uncontestable principles. Like life, liberty and property. Rights aren’t easily secured, protected or held onto.

Only when you have experienced, protected and lived with human rights can you understand and cherish their value. However, there will always be those who will endeavor to take your rights from you. Isn’t this election cycle stark proof?

It’s profound and threatening when you think about it. The 20th century saw a steady development of what I call the “Socialist Class.” Government control replacing our rights. The Socialist Class wants their officials to solve their problems and think and act for them. Each new generation has less individual freedom and increasingly fewer rights. How can anyone truly understand lost rights if they never get the chance to experience them?

Benjamin Disraeli: “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there I found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Isn’t the Democratic presidential nominee promising free government pre-schooling?

Thomas Jefferson: “When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls to an exercise of the power of dissolution.” Isn’t a society that forfeits its rights and no longer has the assured separation of powers void of its constitutional protection?

Our Founding Fathers gave us the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Aren’t the rights held in these documents worth protecting?