Hmm.
I still get to choose my own job, or no job. That wasn't available in East Germany.
I still get to choose where I live. That wasn't available in East Germany.
My taxes are lower than anywhere in Europe. Ditto East Germany.
I choose my doctor.
I get a few bonus years at the end of my life that people born in other countrie don't get.
I can be part of the government if I want to. Or not.
etc.
Hyperbole suits you and your friends, Laz.
Well now, if we compare favorably in freedom to Communist East Germany, then I guess there's no need to worry.
/sarcasm
If you're happy and you know it, rattle your chains....
You must enjoy all the hoops we half to jump thru these days because our Goverment knows what is best for us.
BigMack
Yes, and until it affects you directly in a serious and terrible way, you're going to stick your head in the sand and sit by while every aspect of freedom we've taken for granted is stripped away from us one by one. You have the right to be willfully naive - at least for the time being.
So as long as you get what you want, to hell with the bill of rights? You go ahead and sell your soul for a few creature comforts, as for me and mine we'll continue to stand up for freedom.
I have been to the old east Germany. May the chains of oppression that you desire rest lightly upon you and your proginey. They will never rest upon me and mine, with the exception of a post-necrotic state. Whence it matters not
what type of search would you consider unreasonable?
not being sarcastic, but it is hard to argue that this ruling actually increases protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
So we're more free than the most oppressed nations in the world. Yippee. Glad to see that means more to some people than our departure from the principles of liberty that built this country.
You can TRY. But if you think you can get elected without support of moneyed interests...
Every time congress pass a law and the President signs it
someone loses a right. I guess this is alright with you.
As a child I used to hear adults say when they saw something
that they didn't like "there aught to be a law" and now there
are many, many, many laws.
Granted some good but many that just give power to the
government and of course take power away from the average
"Joe".
I am pleased that I am coming to the end of this life, I don't
think I would care to live during the next 40 or 50 years
not to mention beyond. Good luck to you who will.
You are quite uninformed about conditions in Eastern Europe. I was there.
Under Communism, unless you were the sort to complain a lot, you were left alone. You could choose among identical shabby apartments, indifferent doctors, and, as for taxes, Russia's are now lower than our's.
Here, you can choose among doctors that will report you for spanking your kids and for gun ownership. You can choose among indifferent mediocre doctors as long as they are on your HMO's list. And you can overpay for ticky-tacky housing.
Yea, freedom lite. Almost, but not quite, worth defending.
The Stasi never had anything so kewl as Total Information Awareness. They used paper files. If we forced our government to use paper files, we would be more free than we are now.