"So the Indians in North America didn't have the right to life and property? The slaves didn't have the right to be free? The jews in Nazi Germany didn't have any rights at all?
"Well, sounds like you think that it was ok to punish slaves who tried to escape from slavery in the South because those in power did not grant them their rights."
What fatuous, if not deliberate, drivel.
Not only did I say so such thing; I never intimated anything close to is.
The native Americans could not enforce their rights and were, therefore, exterminated or forcibly relocated and indoctrinated. Why? Because they lacked sufficient numbers and weapons to protect their rights when force was used against them. Their rights were effectively stripped from them, and it took almost three-quarters of a century before they could start recovering them.
Slaves were obtained and kept by force, fear and ignorance. How? They lacked the organization, communication and weapons to stage a successful revolt. When there were revolts (Google "Nat Turner"), they were brutally suppressed, with even more punitive laws enacted afterwoards. That is how the slaves were kept divested of their rights. It took a century, and a sea-change in national attitudes as the result of well-orchestrated protests, before the promise of Reconstruction was really achieved. The Jews? Please. The German government systematically stripped them of their rights, their property, their existence, and tried damned hard to eradicate their entire race and culture. Through LAWS.
Their fellow German citizens aided and abetted in the process, and perpetrated the pograms across most of Europe thereafter. THAT is how the Jews lost their rights, as you damned well know.
Call and raise.