More on rights vs priviledge

The US constitution confers US itizens four basic rights, two of which are as follows:

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Petition to the Government

They sound awesome, or are they more like priviledges of being wealthy and connected?

If you think that you can dicuss whatever on this site and scream wheneve you feel like, so you are enjoying your right of feedom of speech, then it is true. But is your speech effective? Anybody gives a damn about it? Or should you hire someone influential to write an editorial in New York Times? Do you have that kind of money and connections, namely, the priviledges of being rich and powerful?

How do you petition your government? Call your local congress men and women and leave a message? Or write an email to the federal government and not sure if they even have received it? Or do you need the priviledges of connections to effectively petition the government?

Maybe Chinese regulations dictate that when you are in China and it is easy for you to travel or send registered email, you have to go to the city where you were first issued a passport to renew it, completely due to resource limitations. It has nothing do to with rights. I renewed my Chinese passport in New York City but it was issued in Shanghai. I though that was quite resonable.

Regarding lost passports in the mail, come on, it happends in the US, too.

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• Grape is exaggerating. He acts like PRC Embassy forced -shanghai_r- ♂ (128 bytes) () 03/28/2006 postreply 06:51:17

• Exercise your rights and priviledges -borisg- ♀ (597 bytes) () 03/28/2006 postreply 09:47:47