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For purposes of comparison, what to say about an undeserving individual gains the White House but does not believe in free speech...??
Obama nominated a Supreme Court who does not subscribe to free speech as an unalienable right...
Without getting into the specifics of the court case, I don't think Jefferson was saying government should protect all unalienable rights in all cases. Certainly if exercising a right violates someone else's rights it's not protected, or is at least limited to the extent that it does violate others' rights.
If you are referring to speech, outside of the well accorded 'fire in a crowded theatre,' what example do you have in mind where one's speech "violates someone else's rights"?
Slander comes to mind. I was just making the more general point that saying government is created to protect unalienable rights doesn't mean it can, or should, protect all of them.