content: ...but citizens don't have any rights. Yeah there are words on paper somewhere, but when it REALLY comes down to it, your rulers are going to do whatever the fuck they want because they have the money, the media, and the military. Your "rights" are temporary privileges that will be allowed so long as it's more convenient for your rulers to allow them then to show you the naked truth of power. The moment those temporary privileges become inconvenient is the moment you will lose them. That's the ugly Machiavellian truth of it.