[FoRK] Misunderestimating "The" Tea Party

[Stephen D. Williams]

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> --- On Sun, 3/21/10, Stephen D. Williams<sdw at lig.net>  wrote:
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>> Actually, based on [1], I think he was right to refer to
>> civil liberties.  Civil liberties:
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>>> generally refers more specifically to the protection
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>> of the individual's rights to form and express his or her
>> own preferences or convictions and to act freely upon them
>> in the private sphere without undue or intrusive
>> interference by the government, ... may be seen as the
>> logical correlates of the goal of *limited* government
>> while civil rights:
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>>> emphasizes more specifically the individual's rights
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>> as a citizen to participate freely and equally in politics
>> and public affairs in order actively to promote his/her
>> preferred public policy alternatives through lobbying
>> policy-makers and/or through personal participation in the
>> electoral process ... are the logical correlates of the goal
>> of /popular or democratic<democracy>/ government
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> Thank you for the tutorial, Stephen. That distinction is not something I've given a lot of thought. If asked, I would likely have kneejerked that civil rights and civil liberties are pretty much synonymous. Clearly they are not. A useful lesson. Makes the day worthwhile. :)
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I was somewhat confused about the terms too, especially the distinction 
between a civil right and a human right.  When people on FoRK seem to 
disagree about meaning or labeling, it's usually a good time to question 
my interpretations and look up actual definitions.

sdw
> (It takes a computing device to access the list. Computing devices -- at least the three closest to me at the moment -- are not my favorite things in the world this weekend. So your tutorial mitigates the grief this particular device has been creating.)  :(
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