I am a patriot from Pa. who regrets that many of the freedoms that I have enjoyed for the last 65 years are no longer possible.

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." ~Thomas Jefferson: Statute of Religious Freedom, 1779

Disregarding this wisdom is where our freedoms began to die.

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."