The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges
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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead
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Radio FreeThe Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privilegesradiofree.orgTwo hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. More The post The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges appeared first on CounterPunch.org .
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