George Carlin on Rights.

 “Folks, I hate to spoil your fun but there’s no such thing as rights, okay?  They’re imaginary.  We made them up! Like the boogeyman, the three little pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that.  Rights are an idea, they’re just imaginary.  Cute idea! Cute.  But that’s all. Cute…and fictional.”

 “The God excuse.  The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.  It came from God.  Anything you can’t describe must have come from God.  Personally, folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would’ve given you the right for some food every day, and he would’ve given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would’ve been lookin’ out for ya. God would’ve been lookin’ out for ya.  You know that.”

 “But let’s say it’s true. Let’s say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?  The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK…10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we’ve had to amend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like…SLAVERY. Just fuckin’ slipped his mind.  But let’s say…let’s say God gave us the original 10. He gave the British 13. The British Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Swedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin’ god damn god given deal is that!?…NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn’t sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning . Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words…business as usual in America.”

“They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY privileges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.  Yeah, sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn’t give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in it’s own power. That’s the only thing…keeping it, and expanding wherever possible.”

 “Personally when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true: I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all.”