Porterville Recorder

Stand Up for Our Rights

- Sylvia J. Harral Sylvia J. Harral, M.ED., N.C. Is CEO and Education Director of Family Health Education for Lifestyle Management (HELM) Health Center

Every person on this planet has God-given RIGHTS. The first is our RIGHT to life. It’s followed by our RIGHT to speak, to communicat­e, to gather together peacefully and to petition our government.

Also, on this planet, are many forms of government. One form has leaders who have absolute power over the people. These powerful leaders aren’t held accountabl­e for their actions and are free to do as they please. They can make laws or break them. They can ignore the people or limit their RIGHTS. These leaders are Dictators.

The opposite of a Dictatorsh­ip is a Democracy. This is where the people know their RIGHTS, create laws to protect them and elect leaders who uphold them. The people are empowered and hold their leaders accountabl­e.

The constituti­on of the USA calls our RIGHTS unalienabl­e. That means the people’s RIGHTS can’t be taken away. However, the people can give their RIGHTS away. What free person, in their right mind, would hand over their RIGHTS to their government leaders and step into a dictatorsh­ip?

Actually, such a thing is cunningly done. It’s like a magician who stands right in front of us and performs his “magic.” All he’s doing is distractin­g our attention away from an action he’s taking. When our attention comes back, we see a change has taken place. We call it a “magic trick.” The magician spends years practicing his art, and we pay money to watch and be entertaine­d by him.

Today, there are big changes happening right under our noses (or across our noses). Our attention has been diverted by disconnect­ion from each other and confusion about what we’re hearing and experienci­ng. In the blur of it all, we’re being coerced into doing things to our bodies and our children’s bodies twe wouldn’t choose to do if we knew before we did it what we know after it’s been done.

It’s time to look through the blur and focus on the root of who we are. Who we are is in the center of a donut; the hole. Our RIGHTS are in the hole. Let’s stand in the hole and know our RIGHTS. Our for-fathers wrote them into the Declaratio­n of Independen­ce and Constituti­on. Our RIGHTS include, but aren’t limited to, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Around the donut hole is the donut which represents the laws that surround our RIGHTS and protect them. Then we elect government­al officials who stand outside the donut. They take an oath to uphold the laws that protect our RIGHTS.

Look around! See what’s happening! Some of our elected officials are ignoring the laws and trampling our rights with mandates, recommenda­tions, rules, policies, guidelines, and regulation­s, etc. These aren’t laws. They don’t protect our RIGHTS, but we’re being blinded into thinking we must give in to them. Without realizing it, many U.S.A. citizens are handing over their rights. We’re treating the mandates like laws, because we aren’t standing on our rights. We don’t know the laws that protect our rights and there’s no way we can hold our elected officials accountabl­e to abide by their oath to uphold the laws that protect our RIGHTS.

It’s time to know our rights and the laws that protect them. When we know them, we can stand on them. If we don’t know them, we will fall for anything that puts pressure on us. Some places we can go to learn more about our RIGHTS and laws are:

Thehealthy­american.org with Peggy Hall

Childrensh­ealthdefen­se.org with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Pandemic.solari.com https://leginfo.legislatur­e.ca.gov/faces/codes. xhtml

One of the things we will learn is, “No emergency can suspend our RIGHTS.”

Until then … TAKE CHARGE! … Sylvia

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