David Lyle:
Good question... what exactly is a "right"? To me, a right is something that cannot be removed from any citizen.
In that case, we don't have any rights.
I would like to see privacy as a right. However, at what point do you draw the line? When does privacy interfere with someone else's rights?
Try reading the cases.
Freedom of speech has never been a right. A lot of people think it is. But go out on a street corner and try to incite a riot. See what happens. Or threaten someone. Or commit treason. Speech is not a right.
You are defining "right" differently from the way it is defined in the Constitution and elsewhere. Now that I understand you to be using the word in a special, personal way, I see no need to discuss it further on this list or elsewhere. --Mike