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Something they also nail into our heads since the day we were born is that we all have rights. If you take a look back at the incarceration of Japanese-Americans of 1942 then you'll understand that we have no rights. They are all privileges. Japanese-Americans were put into the American version of concentration camps--simply because their parents were of Japanese descent, they were born in the wrong country. These are American citizens being put into concentration camps. They had all of their "precious" rights stripped away from them. Rights are not rights if you can simply take them away. They are privileges. We have the Bill of Privileges, not the Bill of Rights.
We do have "Rights", however, not ALL of them are "inalienable".
Let's mess around with "Freedom of Speech", shall we?
So I'm bored and I'm in the library. Now, I wanna make it a little fun, just a LITTLE.
I'll go to some corner or wherever and scream "THERE'S A BOMB HOLY GOD A BOMB HELP OH MY GOD!"
We all know you WILL get in trouble. But you'll argue, "I have the freedom of speech!"
Well to an extent, in that scenario, you'd probably end up in a lot of trouble despite how you supposedly have the "rights" of speech.
Point is, I can't be shot for saying, "Hey this President is ****", but if I obviously try doing something stupid, of course I'll get in trouble. So in some cases, yes your rights CAN be removed.
Anyways, I digressed. Let's talk about the WW2 Japanese-American internment camps. So with the "equal protection guarantee clause" (I forget exactly what it's called), Japanese-Americans can't have a law classifying them, right? (Level 1:Strict Scrutiny I think? Where the Court judges if a law violates the equal protection stuff by using race, national origin, religion, etc)
Well, no but...if the government can persuade the Court with how there's a "compelling state interest" or whatever, then they can. And they did.
IN SHORT, I agree and disagree about your point with "Rights". They all aren't 100% set in stone, but you still have them.