This article is interesting. Ron Paul supports secession and claimed that slavery could end by buying up slaves. I don't agree with that since injustice ought to end immediately by fighting or strong intervention. Bribing away crimes is still bribery. Some of the supporters of Ron Paul agree with small, private businesses discriminating people on race. They believe private instruments can do it, because they aren't created by the federal government. I disagree with this assumption, because private businesses can't do fraud, they can't murder, and they can't do perjury. Therefore, private businesses are limited in their conduct by many laws including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ron Paul supporters mention that Jim Crow and slavery were state functions. They were, but private groups like the Klan harmed black people's rights. Private groups have done slavery before. The White Citizens Council is a private group. The neo-Nazis is a private group too. Also, private corporations today have promote GMOs, torture, forced slavery, and other evils now in 2012. Therefore, the state and private groups can't be nihilistic and do whatever it wants to. Human rights trump property rights. These laws were created to protect human rights and to allow people to live in whatever location they desire (not to force people to give up their liberties from the Bill of Rights). Also, if you live in every square inch of America (whether in private or public locations), you are bounded under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Just because you are in a private restaurant, doesn't mean that your human rights are negated period.
By Timothy
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