TPaine7's Journal - Riddle me this, iverglas

Let's see if you can separate the wheat from the partially digested chaff.

Four of these quotes are from respected legal authorities who actually know or knew what they were talking about. One is from a blowhard sophist and is not worth a teaspoon of BS. (Real BS has a legitimate purpose—it can help plants grow.)

Main Entry: un•alien•able
Pronunciation: "&n-'Al-y&-n&-b&l, -'A-lE-&-
Function: adjective
: not alienable : INALIENABLE

Main Entry: alien•able
Pronunciation: 'Al-y&-n&-b&l, 'A-lE-&-
Function: adjective
: that may be changed over to another's ownership alienable interest in property> — alien•abil•i•ty /"Al-y&-n&-'bil-&-tE, "A-lE-&-/ noun

Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster, Inc.

Unalienable: incapable of being transferred.

…The natural rights of life and liberty are UNALIENABLE.

Source: Bouvier’s Law Dictionary

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
Source: Blackstone

One of the core meanings of "inalienable" is "not subject to forfeiture", for fuck's sake.
Source: iverglass at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

Can you tell which quote is worthless and based in profound ignorance?