On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:54:59 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are defined
>> in the Declaration of Independence as being among the "inalienable
>> rights".
> 
> The DoI is not a legal document, as such.  It's effectively just pretty
> words.  See also 'enemy combatant' vs. 'prisoner of war', any legal
> tiptoeing to shoehorn enhanced interrogation techniques into being just
> this side of *technically* legal, waiving of said 'inalienable rights'
> by committing this or that crime, moving prisoners out of territory so
> certain laws don't apply, et cetera.
> 
> If it can be waived, ever, or at the very least if it needs to be
> spelled out because any people don't have it, it's not an inalienable
> right.  IMO

So in other words, the DoI states what we set out to do, and then we 
failed short?

Jim

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