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One in a series that takes a look at some of the zany and madcap things said by Sarah Palin.

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As you probably figured out pretty quickly, that is not Sarah Palin but rather Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) addressing a Planned Parenthood rally last week.

Here's the transcript of what he said in the video:

… The Republicans in Congress claim they’re concerned about the budget balance, but it’s a disguise! It’s not true! It’s a lie! That’s not what they want. They want — they want other people not to be able to have their own opinions. They don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution! But we’ll give it to them anyway.

For those of you that have been paying attention to the vocabulary and M.O. of statist-authoritarians over the years, what Lautenberg said should really come as no surprise.

When you start fashioning "rights" like housing, jobs and health care out of thin air, you naturally will start conflating those "rights" with real rights like freedom of speech, assembly and religion. And in the bizarro world of the statist-authoritarian, those real rights as guaranteed by the Constitution, as with the made-up "rights", become only cheap political tools to be leveraged in favor of your friends and against your enemies.

In Lautenberg's world, the "right" to health care can be granted or waived just as easily as free speech depending upon his mood at the moment. Hence, his graciousness in "giving" us the rights already guaranteed by the Constitution.

As it is, then, it's not really about rights, Constitutionally-borne or otherwise and it sure as hell isn't about jobs or housing, rather it's all about political power, who wields it and who will benefit or suffer harm from it.

Our sincere thanks to this tool for shedding further light into the mind and philosophical under-pinnings of the statist-authoritarian.


H/T: Hot Air