Freedom Flyer 16

Allan Spicer (Society knows the danger of unbridled freedom, Free Press, Jan. 31) states that Emery is forgetting a basic principle. He is not!

To substitute the faulty premise of group rights for the principle of individual rights borders on the immoral. Any individual right which may be abrogated by the will (or whim) of the "majority" is not a right at all; it is a cruel joke, a joke whose fruition we have recently witnessed in Eastern Europe and China. These countries' govemments held as their ideal the sacrifice of the individual for the "common good." Should we be surprised when we see the consequences of holding such a philosophy?

Wake up, people! Politics is not a game we are playing. If we persist in our present course of action, we will find that the joke is on us and that we are all the losers. Let's get it straight: The faulty premise is group rights; the principle is individual rights.

Who speaks for the individual? I know of one such person.