Hehe. I'm glad you automatically assign the confusion to me rather than to yourself. I agree that all humans should have the same basic set of rights regardless of where they are from, what they look like, or any other factor. I think the source of your confusion is that many of the things you consider to be rights are actually privileges. For example, receipt of money from social programs is not a right. But that's really beside the point since you originally conflated "citizen" with "human".
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Ok cyclowizard, I will take all the blame. On a thread where I see mainly humor. As I can also recall another event about circa 1973. As me and some friends journeyed south and West to explore caves around the Bloomington, IN area. And in some town on the route, Elettsville as I recall, there was a fellow named Thrasher running for Sheriff. Lawn signs all over the place and it was impossible to ignore them all.
Now with a name like thrasher, you would think it would put the fear of God into any self respecting criminal.
Never did find out of Thrasher won or lost the election, but then again, I never heard of a giant increase in Elettsville, Indiana police brutality complaints either. Funny thing too, despite the fact I can see the pig on the cow in Vermont, I can't recall many cases of alleged Vermont police brutality either.That distinction seems to be reserved for other States, Mayor Rizzo in Philly, Daily in Chicago, Sheriff Joe in Arizona, Gates in LA, while allegation of police states exist in Florida and Louisiana.