It’s nice to be in America, Everything Free in America, Color TV in America ! "None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants." --John Milton (author of Paradise Lost) Freedom is the most liberal of all political concepts. Anybody who believes in freedom is a liberal by definition. The brave men and women who spilled their blood back in 1776 were courageous liberals who died to give you freedom. But today, 230 years later, some Americans don't want freedom. They want license. License to do what they want, even if that means trampling on the freedom of others. Those who condemn "liberals" don't realize that they are also condemning that most liberal of ideals--freedom. Freedom (the most liberal concept of them all) has been trampled and opposed by every dictatorship and tyranny and despotic regime in history. Those regimes want license. License has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with power and privilege to do anything a person can get away with. Millions of Americans want license--and are willing to resort to just about any means necessary to get it. And that spells the end of freedom and the beginning of tyranny. The very kind of tyranny that those brave, liberal, freedom-loving souls gave their life's blood fighting against 230 years ago. If you want freedom, then you are by definition a liberal. If you want power and privilege (i.e., license), then you are not a liberal. What does America represent today? Freedom or license? "When government fears the people, there is freedom. When people fear the government, there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire Manifest destiny, I’m taking it, because my GOD says so! -How selfish. historical expansionist doctrine: the 19th-century doctrine according to which the United States was believed to have the God-given right to expand into and possess the whole of the North American continent From Salt Lake City, "No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense," said, Mayor Rocky Anderson, at the rally, absorbing waves of cheers and applause from the thousands of protesters as he called Bush a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president." Neo-Con— it is a movement founded on, and perpetuated by an aggressive approach to foreign policy… I was married during the Vietnam Conflict. We got divorced about a month after he came home. My ex-husband was stationed in Germany while we were married. My ex kept my spousal support for himself so that he could live off base in Germany with another woman. I was pregnant with a 2 year old baby when he left for Germany. The ARMY won’t let me have copies of my medical records. “I think that foreign affairs figured out that our GI’s were going overseas and knocking up their daughters and then persuading them to get illegal abortions (or so called Mississippi Abortions) so that the GI’s wives wouldn’t find out, and the GI’s wouldn’t have to get court marshaled. Now we have to pay our allies back for what we’ve done to their daughters overseas.…” Maybe if The Pentagon enforced the drinking age for GI’s to 21 years old, the United States wouldn’t embarrass themselves as much. Some times we find that our own government is what we should be afraid of Remember to "believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see." so much of that is propaganda
Like the freedom of taking my guns away, no thanks. There is currently no party for and about freedom. Just a bunch of sides trying to tell us how to live and what to believe.
saw a great bumper sticker the other day: BE NICE TO AMERICA OR WE'LL BRING DEMOCRACY TO YOUR COUNTRY
I don't agree with Haid very often, but this time he hit the nail right on the head. Well stated, Haid.
Heard of a great bumper sticker during the presidential elections: "Don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse"
The Constitution Party is the only party that represents what the founders established. Here are seven principles of the CP: Seven Principles of the Constitution Party are: 1. Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death; 2. Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual; 3. Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted; 4. Property: Each individual's right to own and steward personal property without government burden; 5. Constitution: and Bill of Rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers; 6. States' Rights: Everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government is reserved for the state and local jurisdictions; 7. American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances. http://www.constitutionparty.com/
The thing is is that the constitution needs some seriouse revising for pretty-much two main reasons: One, even the elastic claus doesn't comnpensate for some changes which have occured in the past few hundred years, and two, it wasn't even finished when we started using it. Our supreme court judges are still appointed by the president. That's just fucking stupid. They have life terms and are appointed by the president. Huh. One husband, one wife. Persoanlly, I think one is enough, but you know, I think it's cool if three or more people want to be married, or if one person wants more than one spouse. Ok, next the American Revolution wasn't really all that justified. England really had the right to tax them like they did, and while it's true representation would have been nice, they still would have been taxed just the same. And this was their main thing. Almost everything else that happened that pissed the colonists off was British response. Also Britain Wasn't going to expand any farther than the Mississippi River because of agreements with the Native Americans, so if they had wanted, they could have just moved west, and they would never have to be bothered by the British again. What the war was really about was Rich Merchants who realized they could make more money if they shed themselves of mercantilism, if fact America even made friends very soon after warring with Britain, and even copied parts of its government from Britain's form of government. It was pretty much fought by a whole bunch of duped colonists with a misguided sense of outrage.
I like the freedom to oppose groups such as the Constitution Party, which appears to be a right wing christian organization bent on instituting their own views over the rest of the nation. Vote Green! 10 Key Values: Grassroots Democracy Social Justice Ecological Wisdom Non-violence Decentralization Community-based Economics Feminism Diversity Responsibility Future Focus
Freedom is being able to choose to do anything you want. Choose what you want to do. Freedom is not being able to do what you want on the account of others. Not having the government dictate any portion of your life, or as little as possible. Conservatives nor Liberals know anything about freedom. Freedom is living a free life without govt intrusion. Be it in your bedroom or your wallet.
"what is freedom?" is such a sad question. freedom is being free... i don't know how it became so complicated. well, yes i do. because we don't know what we're trying free ourselves of. because we don't know what we are or what we want to do, and we think that freedom and independence means not needing anything from anyone or anything. no... that's not freedom... that's death. i guess a person could define freedom as being able to travel wherever you want, but it's not like you could do that without the help of other people... people who build vehicles, people who know the laws of physics, people who know where to get the feul needed to make these things go, people who know what plants are poisonous to eat when you get to wherever you're headed... you could figure it out all by yourself, sure, and maybe you would get lucky. but you don't have to. we can learn from the mistakes of those who came before us. all we have to do is accept that in life you have to cooperate and that's not a bad thing. it is impossible to be independent, unless you're god (and even then, i don't think it is)... you came from a person, you learned how to be a person by observing people, all your life you were dependent on people and on the planet. and when you die someday you will be worm food and fertilize the grass that a rabbit eats right before it has dependent little rabbit babies... i think that "freedom" is a personal thing, not something you have to fight for, but something you cultivate inside yourself. it's allowing yourself not to feel fear, not to hoard things away, not to worry or hide or live in denial. it's letting yourself live... which is so silly because you're always going to be alive, until you die, and then you can't really do anything about it, can you? what we have now is lack of freedom manifesting more lack of freedom in the name of freedom, which is entirely misunderstood. and i'm not saying we're pushing this lack of freedom on anyone, because that isn't possible. we're accepting that what we have inside us is at risk of being stolen; we're imagining problems that don't exist based on circumstances that haven't happened and thereby causing them to happen. there's no way to really rob someone of their freedom... it's not possible. but it's possible to have a bunch of buffoons who believe that freedom is not an intrinsic quality and that it as possible to hoard and collect... and that doing so will make them happy. and when we see these buffoons as people of "power" (people who "give us" our freedom), we trust them, and adopt their emotions, and all of our fear multiplies and makes itself real when there was never any threat to begin with. like running from your shadow. we can never be free, because we die. but we can free ourselves from wanting to be free at any cost, and then we'll be as free as we can possibly get.
Yes there is, that is what torture and deprivation provide to those wishing to gain power over others.
that depends on how you define being free. but not being tortured doesn't equal freedom. if that's what we're fighting for, the right to not be tortured, then that is pretty sad. and i'm not going to pretend that being tortured isn't as bad as it seems; that would be idiotic. but why do we torture people? why do we want power over others? why do want want more than we need? because we are scared someone will take away our freedom. so we try to take away theirs. it's like building a giant warehouse to hold all the sunshine. it's counterproductive and illogical. freedom is in your mind. you can be at your most free when others feel they have the most power over you. i think that torture is a condensed version of our whole existence... that sounds horrible, but i do. all of our lives we are trying to stop physical pain and emotional pain and every other kind of pain, and the only way to end it for good is through your own mind. unless you think that you are your body and that's it... in which case you are screwed because it is just as impossible to live in a bubble as it is to have everything. the only way we can stop pain is to stop hiding from it and see it for what it is. it's just a reaction. it doesn't have to mean anything we don't want it to mean. you can't re-write the way things work... things will hurt you, and there is nothing you can do to keep those things from happening. except accept it.
We learn from the extreme liberals with clinton din't we? we also learn from Waco Texas. Both party sold out to special intrests groups in the early 1900 .
It's hard to hold to your ideals in your mind, when you are cold or hungry or in pain. To exist requires minimums. If you are responisble for others you are also looking after their existence in terms of the bare minimums.
You are free if = You own a Credit card with large amounts of credits. You are free if your vehicle have all the permits and inssurance "here is just plain rediculus" . You are free if you use that credit card to book a flight somewhere besides the U.S were you can breath better with out a cop looking over your shoulders with intent of arresting you for the slightest uncompliance with 2 millions laws , and ready to tazer you@ beat you then shooting you. and if you brush "no sexual contact at all" with 17 or 16 year old you are automatic label a pedo . 18 is fine and ready to die in iraqi soil. but not old enough to buy your own liquor or much less harmless pot.
For those of you too young to have the memory. John McCain signed an anti-american statement under torture while held in vietnam. So much for torture providing useful information.
Want to consider all service people as heros, better think again. Some sold out their buddies, and some are just people filling jobs that can sometimes go contrary to current thought. And need to be held accountable. Putting on a uniform doesn't make you a hero or above the law.
