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It still is, you are perfectly "free" to walk and talk on your cell phone. You are perfectly "free" to ride a bus and talk on your telephone. No one is violating your "freedom," what they are doing is adding restrictions to a privelege you choose out of "freedom" to indulge in. There is a vast difference between the two concepts.

What a load of crap. Defining an activity that doesn't interfere with another individual's liberty as a "privilege" has consistantly been a tactic of jackboots for attacking liberty. Confiscation of all personal property, a 100% income tax, and government curfews can all be defended using your ridiculous logic (e.g. "No one is violating your "freedom" if they pass a law restricting your ability to leave your house on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. What they are doing is adding restrictions on a freedom you choose to indulge in.") It's people like you that are problem with this country.

No, actually it is people like you who are the problem; a person who believes that irresponsible acts which endanger other people while performing actions licensed by the state (a privelege) are a "right."

Everything you list is protected under the Constitution, most of all your property.

The Constitution is a wonderful document, you might try reading it sometime...as you claim to be a "federalist."

You would then know the difference between a "right" which is inherent and cannot be taken from "the people" and a "privelege" which is "granted by the state."