see my comment 248, it is ridiculous to talk of banning someone for stating the truth, IMO, you don’t seem to have a very good grasp of how the government effects our lives.
They steal 50% of every cent you make, and you aren’t bothered!?
a little ban happy too huh?
Terrorists can only screw up a few of us. An out-of-control government can screw up all of us.
What's wrong with that assessment?
You replied - “And he is correct in that assessment.”
Please shows us where the government wants to wipe out the city you live in with a nuke weapon, like al Qaeda would like to do. While your at it, please show us any case where our government has beheaded a US citizen or any person and videotaped it? You can’t.*****
I think he means that the slow, but continuous degradation of our liberties is more dangerous. Have you ever heard of the central government giving up a power, once they have obtained that power?
It reminds me of watching old WW II movies, when the Germans were occupying France. A common question was, “Your papers, please.” Back then Americans thought it was ridiculous that a policeman could ask anybody for identification for just walking down the street. Now we are close to that in the US. E.g. a person found a hot Wi-Fi spot and was just playing on his computer in a car. A policeman came by and asked him for identification. (This was before the current hysteria.) He told him he would be glad to show it if the policeman would tell him why he wanted it. This little defiance of the police state put him in jail for a day. A grandfather out here was fined $50, because his granddaughter didn’t have her seat belt on. And $50 was not an insignificant sum to him. If you ride a motorcycle, you must wear a helmet. Some places, if you ride a bike, you must wear a helmet. A 1st or 2nd grader was kicked out of school because he “drew” a picture of a gun. A valedictorian was denied her dipolma for a while because she mentioned Jesus in her speech. My youngest was valedictorian this past year (brag, brag), I will have to ask him if he was given any guidelines for his speech. The federal government used its powers to get the “national” drinking age up to 21. An 18 year old can fight and possibly die in Iraq or else where, but he can’t drink a beer legally. If you carry a large sum of cash with you, it could be seized as possible drug money and it is up to you to prove that it is not. Students have been expelled from schools for giving another student an aspirin. Zero tolerance laws have got many good kids in trouble for innocent mistakes. First, they mandated that seat belts be installed in cars, then they madated that you wear them. After that came air bags. How many years was it before we learned that air bags could kill small children and small women (people), in minor accidents? The list could go on for a long time.
I know a lot of these things occurred prior to 9/11, but they just show the direction of our country.
***Your statement shows how dangerous Ron Paul supporters are and should be banned from this forum.***
As I have mentioned before, the Democratic forum banned all the conservatives from Townhall who went over there when TH was dying because of a stupid mistake of charging people to join when all the other forums were going cost free. If Ron Paul supporters are so bad, you should be able to beat them in the forum of ideas, not by banning them.