[elfman2]

We’re the freest people in the history of the planet, but this pimp makes millions selling platitudes of hopelessness to borderline psychos.

[mnehring]

We’re the freest people in the history of the planet, but this pimp makes millions selling platitudes of hopelessness to borderline psychos.

Thank You!
Any time I hear people crying about how we are living in a fascist country or are socialist or communist or whatever, I want to scream you ignorant fool. We are the USA, we are the freest country in the world. We are the most prosperous country in the world.

If we were really fascist:

• The government would determine your job based on the good of the state.
• The government would control industry, not the other way around.
• Your political party affiliation would be mandated.
• Media would be a single outlet controlled by the government.
• All citizens would be categorized into boxes based on some factor, be it race, family ties, beliefs, whatever, and your job, your salary, where you live, what school you go to, and your rights would be based on that 'box'.
• Private schools would not be allowed to exist.
• Only one, government mandated religion would exist and that religion would be controlled by the government.
• Military service would be mandatory.
• Police would be a branch of the military and would regulate law based on martial law rule.
• Travel would 100% regulated.
• All speech would be licensed and subject to regulation.
• Blogs would not exist.
• YouTube would not exist.
• FreeRepublic would not exist.
• No person would be free to make a speech decrying if the government is fascist, communist, or whatever.
• Failure to comply with politically correct speech or correct thinking would subject you to imprisonment or worse.

As Ayn Rand said, the only difference between Communists and Fascists is the color of their uniforms.

 

[live+let_live]

“We’re the freest people in the history of the planet”

Drive with no seatbelt.
Smoke in a restaurant.
Sell unpasturized milk.
Give your 19 year old son a beer after a hard day baling hay.

[dcwusmc]

“We’re the freest people in the history of the planet...”

And I want to stay that way, but the Pubbie Party (Rats lite) and the regular Rat party want to take us down the road to socialism (gov’t ownership of everything and everybody) or fascism (gov’t regulation and control over private industry — with the connivance and consent of the industries — and ownership of the peons, you and me). Only difference is the Rat Lite party doesn’t (yet) have the pedal to the metal, just “almost.”

Dr. Paul rightly, IMO, sees the most serious issues as INTERNAL... that is, those who would trade MY freedom for their ILLUSION of security. You know, people like you Paul-bashers who have the fantasy that the Islamo-nuts are a serious threat to us, when they are NOT. They are at most an annoyance. They cannot come here and conquer us, now or ever. If they were to somehow come to power here, it would be at the behest of our own government and NOT because they were militarily (or any other way) mightier than the United States. Only our own government can take away our liberty, and then only because they are ALLOWED to do that by those who seek security (which is an ILLUSION) over freedom.

And only the Liberals and their sycophants (like GWB) are telling us just how peaceful the Islamo-nuts are... Only the PC crowd wants to EMBRACE those who want to kill us. The REST of us take the “threat” of militant islam with the large grain of salt it needs... We wish neither to cow-tow to them nor kill them unnecessarily.