better than you do, if you want to read from it, you can, but give us the elevator speech for what thomas paine understood the purpose of government was and how his role was to protect natural rights in exchange for greater security, safety, and protection of the inalienable rights that were exchanged. >> paine makes a very stark, lockeian case. argumenthink of is the coming from john locke, it is fair to say that his own argument is more complicated than that, but paine argues that we need to understand individual rights is emanating from the fact that every individual derives his right directly, not through society. we have the famous thought experiment on the state of nature, where we understand society and its rights and we should think about society as coming out of a situation in which independent individuals, completely separate from each other, come together by choice to form a society. it is the compact that they make with each other that is the fundamental law of that society. it exists to protect the rights that they have as individuals. it does not give them new rights . they do not

thomas paine made an important contribution, but i'm not sure he'd feed into the conversation... c-span: why? >> guest: ... and the chemistry of the conversation. well, he was very anxious to claim credit for independence, but he wasn't part of this political process in a direct way. it's the delegates--i have questions to ask the delegates to the congress. of course, he published "common sense" in january 1776, and it did open a public debate over that issue. there was a kind of a silence reigned. i mean, people were hesitant to face up to it, although the events were going in that direction. but it's published right after news of a s--of the king's speech to parliament in october 1775, where he says, 'these americans, whatever they say, they're trying to be independent.' the congress says, 'oh, we'--somebody in congress stands up and says, 'we should disavow that,' and the others say, 'wait a minute, let's just think this through.' it's--oh--an important moment, in other words, that the newest com--and they'd also heard that, as the report went, the king's army had--or navy, as

school and be vetted, the publishers, some of them didn't go to journalism school or college, thomas paine, for instance, and i think, but i'm interested in your response to those questions. >> yes? >> yes, i think we are talking about the function he was feeling at the time and the expectations of the function if you look at the vetting that was going on for contractors versus those of acting service and service personnel, the expectations were different. and in terms of my use of the phrase journalism, i think that the free press is something larger than what you are talking about. the definition you're under versus somebody who is as a profession and the craft of journalism. but it's good to distinguish. but i think there is this larger ability of americans to perform that function. and that's never more true than in this time. >> i guess that is the point and i would agree completely that thomas paid didn't go to journalism school. and that is not the be-all and the end-all. but on the other hand there were historically barriers to entry is into the function of journalism. both physica

is not law, and that basically, in the show just before this one, you agreed with tim who said, thomas pain would not count on the courts to enforce national rights. -- natural rights. what is your response to the idea that the civil war was the right response, not courts? a response.do have >> that is true, but remember, the declaration says when a long train of abuses pursuing invariably the same object to refuse the past two -- absolute -- it is our right. said, i memorized it. we only find out if that is the case after we have looked at the lawful route for securing rights , which government has interested in hearing. if, for example, a police officer wrongly searches my home, the proper response, or is it rebellion against the government? no. i have a constitutional guarantee that i can go to court and seek enforcement of it. the founding fathers took every lawful means at their disposal before taking the final revolutionary step of declaring their intentions. right ofof course, the revolution is an inherent part of our system of government, it is the last thing you do appear before th

pain-free. abc 7 morning news anchor eric thomas. >> reporter: when it comes to sleeping, jamie says she likes toe over most of the bed while her fiance chris sleeps on the edge on his stomach. problem is, both were waking up with aches and pains. >> yeah. >> definitely. >> definitely. he would complain of neck pain and i would have lower back pain. >> reporter: their chiropractor says this is a common problem. >> if you're waking up achy, sore, not rested, something's wrong. >> reporter: doctors say there is an organized way for couples to get a good night's rest and protect their backs. >> have to figure out are you a back sleeper or side sleeper, then figure out which side of the bed is more appropriate for this couple. >> reporter: chris is a stomach sleeper which is an absolute no-no. >> that's the worst position for the neck and head, also the low back. >> reporter: these days, chris and jamie sleep on their side and back. if you are alone, he says use a pillow between your knees to align your hips and spine. but couples can use each other for alignment. >> he's on his side and i'm on my si

they see black people as being able to endure more pain and being older than they are, stronger than they are, faster than they are thomasevil or more demonic. that kind of bias had some awful consequences once it is really present in an interface between the law first and officer and an unarmed civilian. those are the kind of complex things that any kind of rebuilding of the trust between institutions and communities charged with serving of protecting. the only way that will happen is if we start to get to the social science behind some of the ways in which people are acting. obviously, we all suffer from bias. pronouncedmuch more when an officer is making a decision between using lethal defuse a trying to situation, and they can't see a person for the full human being that they are. >> professor, big issue that came out of the michael brown cases the role of the grand jury, especially whenever prosecutor who works often with police like bob mcculloch. what reforms, if any, do you want to see on the issue of grand jury's investigating cases like these? >> let's take a federal data, 162,000 cases brought before a grand j

thomas smith was mistakenly shot and killed by a fellow officer. >> it is very difficult express in words how much sorry you are feeling right now and how much pain. >> and there are stories we still don't understand including the ilavista rampage. there were stories of survival who can forget the 15-year-old stow away who made it all the way from san jose to maui in the rear wheel of the plane. sports gave us a lot to talk about. the niners began the year with that crushing nfc championship loss. and we bid farewell to the stick, said hello to the 49ers stadium. and then the giants world series championship. things we said goodbye to also came back. the blue angels returned for fleet week and we found new ways to get to the same place via the oakland airport connector. this year we connected through social media more than ever. we dumped ice buckets on our heads and searched for treasure thanks to the no longer mysterious hidden cash tweeter. even hollywood made headlines as the movie the interview had president obama and north korea at odds. >> good morning, vietnam. >> reporter: and 2014 broke our heart with the loss of robin williams. he live

thomas burnhard would have loved it, if he loved anything. >> i have -- it's hard for me to remember the title "the war hound and the world's pain" by michael morcock which he wrote in 1981. i started reading him when i was 16 on a foreign stewedy trip to england. i realized when i started reading him i loved his language and this is one of his books and he has written a hundred and this is one i hadn't read. i love it because of his -- he is a science fiction mystery writer, science fiction fantasy writer, but he asks questions which i found interesting. in this one there's a soldier who didn't want to be a soldier but became a very evil soldier who somehow became under the purview of satan, but satan had decided he doesn't like being satan anymore and wants to go back to heaven, and he needs this guy to go out and find a way for him to get back into heaven. just kind of love that. these are the kind of problems i feel like i live with all the time. [laughter] >> in vary pedestrian way, but i like to think of it in a larger way. >> these answers are kind of the book seller's nightmare in that all of them are either books that came out long

thomas drayton. in many ways the psychological tactics were just as bad. our science and technology expert jake ward explains. >> once upon a time torture was simply a matter of inflicting physical pain. but pseudo science applies psychological pain. i'm talk here about sleep deppary vacation, deprivation. little or no evidence on the body. the thing to understanding is that the researchers who have looked at the distinction between physical and psychological torture have found that in the end the effect on the victim is largely the same. as the u.n. special reporter on torture pus puts it, whether it's the body or the mind, whether the victim is sexually assaulted or held in a state of terrible anxiety the common effect is the disintegration of the personality to regress the victim to a place where he or she loses all hope of control of freedom of intimacy and can do nothing else but comply. of course this new report on the cia's methods reveals that the agency engaged in both categories of coercion, physical and psychological. the program even employed psychologists who help refine its interrogation techniques, training psychologists using coercion to make their questioning more ef

thomas stories? [laughter] >> why did that make you cry? >> it seems so unfair and unprofessional. not my responsibility. it was painful. the idea i was responsible for killing children. >> i am wondering -- i would never have known that. do you feel that it is your job not to let people know you have feelings? >> i do not tell the stories very often. it did 20 years to get that one out. >> the hardest days are when you have really big things collide. mike makes a good point. the easiest days to get ready to brief are the hardest days to brief. they give you -- you have this notebook and it has 25 things in it. if you know you are going to get one question asked six different ways, you do not have to take -- pay attention to the 19 other tabs. every day of the oil spill. it was brutal. spillmber during the oil was when rolling stone pop their story about stanley mcchrystal and we have a call -- we have to call a four-star general back from afghanistan. i remember walking to the residence to call the president and i said, i think you need to read this story. he read the first two paragraphs and said -- we had a quick con

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