Devaluing the Idea of a Bill of Rights

[submitted by tristein]
Re: http://maloney.house.gov/documents/financial/consumer/20080304CCBOROnePager.pdf

The so-called Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights proposed by Rep. Caroline Maloney, and supported by Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, perpetrates an affliction greater than that of a mere endeavor to further infantilize the citizenry of the United States of America — it devalues the idea of a Bill of Rights. The purpose of a Bill of Rights is to ensure natural and unalienable human rights - rights that are inherent to every person's status as a human being. Placing a right to "45 days notice of any interest rate increases" on par with the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures", for example, trivializes the idea of a right, and insults the intelligence of people who truly treasure human rights.