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George Carlin’s Final Warning

1. Kewl2 says:

   August 27, 2023 - 11:30 am at 11:30 am

   “Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a f*** about them. Government doesn’t care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a f*** about you. It’s interested in its own power, that’s the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible. Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all. Personally, I lean toward unlimited rights.

   I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please. But, if I do something you don’t like, I think you have the right to kill me. So where you gonna find a fairer fucking deal than that? Boy everyone in this country is always running around yammering about their fucking rights. I have a right, you have no right, we have a right, they don’t have a right. Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but there’s no such thing as rights, okay? They’re imaginary. We made them up. Like the boogeyman.

   The three little pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea, they’re just imaginary. They’re a cute idea, cute. But that’s all, cute and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this. Where do they come from? People say, well, they come from God, they’re God-given rights. Oh, fuck, here we go again. Personally, folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would have given you the right to some food every day, and he would have given you the right to a roof over your head. God would have been looking out for you.

   God would have been looking out for you. But let’s say it’s true. Let’s say God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights? The Bill of Rights in this country has ten stipulations, okay? Ten rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week because we’ve had to amend the Bill of Rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things like slavery just fucking slipped his mind.

   But let’s say, let’s say God gave us the original 10. He gave the British 13. The British Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29. The Belgians have 25. The Swedish have only six. And some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fucking goddamn God-given deal is that? No rights at all?

   Why would God give different people in different countries different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills? Doesn’t sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning. Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words, business as usual in America.

   In 1942, there were 110,000 Japanese American citizens and good-standing, law-abiding people who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That’s all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had? Right this way! Into the internment camps.

   Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter. You see how it’s going?”