[Cold Heat]

The Afgans are free to do whatever they please for the most part. What kind of freedom do you seek?

Or should I even ask?

[BluesDuke]

What kind of freedom do you seek?

You ask almost as though I were seeking to blow up the world with an aleuteum Q46 explosive space modulator and claim that it was just a cigarette lighter gone blooey. ;)

But for a proper answer to your question, begin with a pair of documents known as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, properly construed and, where appropriate, amended. (Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, anyone?)

I seek, in short, the end of the improperly consecrated, paternalistic State, and the restoration of properly construed and minimal American government. Which is to say, government (at all levels) whose sole legitimate business - aside from the proper and diligent defence of Americans' lives and properties - is to stay the hell out of your business, my business, and any and every individual American citizen's business, unless - big "unless" - one citizen would obstruct or abrogate a fellow citizen's equivalent rights.

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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! ;)