[Bella_Bru]

Its marginally significant that any politician would use the Patriot Act to shut down Freerepublic. This site mainly backs our government anyway, I rarely see dissention and if I do, its usually a libertarian.

The right to dissent is one of the rights that makes this country what it is. I do not want to live in a country like communist China, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, et al., where dissention is not allowed. Living while being forced to agree with EVERYTHING the government does is not living.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

I would certianly fight to my death to protect my right to keep and bear arms, and my right to say, "I do not agree with my government". To do any less is to say the U.S. should bever have been created and that we should still be a British colony.

[freeeee]

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

I often despair that the American spirit is dead. Thanks for saying that, you made my day!

[Travis McGee]

AMEN!