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To: Jefferson Adams
I am curious. Just what freedoms have you lost? What has been taken from you? How is your life different today than it was 10 years ago?
138 posted on 06/23/2002 2:43:23 PM PDT by rintense
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To: rintense
I am curious. Just what freedoms have you lost? What has been taken from you? How is your life different today than it was 10 years ago?

Well, let's see.

I can no longer live in the state of California - I left in 1988 - because of guns that I own. Plus, after 1994, the type of guns that I like to shoot can no longer be imported into the US - that's an infringement on the 2nd Amendment.

If I speak against the Federal Government's "War on Terror" in public, the attorney general of the US has said - and the so-called "Patriot Act" states - that I might be considered a terrorist. So there goes freedom of speech, the 1st Amendment.

The government, both federal and other, have shown how much they like to confiscate property - simply because you *might* be committing a crime. And it's damned hard to get it back - plus it will cost you a lot of money. Go to www.fear.org (Forfeiture Endangers Americans' Rights) if you want to see stats. That's the 5th Amendment.

The federal government in many, many ways has taken away the rights of the individual states. Just one recent case is when Bush signed the Education bill a few weeks ago. That's the 10th Amendment.

Using Echelon, Carnivore, and God only knows what other tools, the government surveils our phone calls, email, etc. That's the 4th Amendment.

People are being locked up without access to an attorney and without even being accused of a crime, especially since 9/11. There are people now behind bars that have been there for months - even years - who have never been charged with a crime. That's the 6th Amendment.

I could go on and on.

If you're happy and you know it, clank your chains.

342 posted on 06/24/2002 11:31:07 AM PDT by Jefferson Adams
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