What if we didn't really live in a free country?

[rambone]

The Judge nails it once again. Sad but true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLw7QHmXJ9Y

 

[Gabriel]

What if?

 

[rambone]

What if?

Then our ancestors died for nothing. We pissed away our freedom to feel safe and secure.

 

[cobber]

Sad? It's like a kick in the head, when you realize how true this is...

 

[Smokepole]

I do love judge Napolitano. He hits the nail on the head all of the time.

 

[Smokepole]

Then our ancestors died for nothing. We pissed away our freedom to feel safe and secure.

To quote Ben Franklin: "Those that would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety."

 

[BillyT]

Problem. Solution?

Does voting work? I'm having my doubts.

 

[LionWeight]

When the govt can open and read your mail without a search warrant, pick you up off the street and hold you forever without due process by just SAYING your linked to terrorists, and never have to charge you or give you access to legal counsel, search you anywhere without just cause...the list goes on...I don't think your free.........do you????

 

[Chefcook]

Then our ancestors died for nothing. We pissed away our freedom to feel safe and secure.

That's where the real punchline is. We are not safe and secure. Those who take our freedoms reduce our security in doing so.

 

[KLB]

Well done. People really are blind to what the government does, sadly. Many only care about what they are given by the state, rather than what the state takes from them.

 

[Expat]

I wonder why the judge didn't discuss the mythical paradigm and the attack on brown people?

 

[JFrost]

Very well done. As clear and straight forward as it appears I believe it is still to obtuse for the majority to grasp. I work with some very bright people and they actively support some government actions such as the expansion of the HMS. This 'protection and care' campaign the government is currently on is welcome by many with open arms, and it is this passivity that will bring about the end of the American dream.

 

[ben992]

Problem. Solution?

Does voting work? I'm having my doubts.

Me too, I have had my doubts for a long time.

 

[SemperFiUSMC]

If you didn't really live in a free country government officials would have come by and picked you and your family up and fed you to the tigers long ago.

What you really want is a state of anarchy. We never have, currently don't and won't ever live there, unless and until SHTF.

 

[Westside]

George Carlin said it best. "people are willing to give up their freedom for the illusion of security."

 

[cobber]

I recently spent some time in a totalitarian state. I'm seeing less and less difference between there and here.

As a society we simply lost it after 9/11, and gave up being Americans for being "protected" by the federal government. That and the "War on Drugs". Too many powers to the government, too many rights surrendered.

For starters, how about we cut the DHS and TSA? That and the courts need to firm up, and not further erode, the 4th Amendment.

One place where voting will make a difference, start paying attention to judicial elections. And vote out the judges who don't protect citizen rights. The courts can have an impact, if the people hold the judges responsible.

 

[jbombelli]

What if anybody besides us cared?

 

[Bitter Clinger]

The man who trades liberty for security deserves neither and loses both. - Thomas Jefferson

 

[halfmileharry]

Problem. Solution?

Does voting work? I'm having my doubts.

One of the problems is that the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those that vote for a living.

 

[bassplayrguy]

What if we did live in a free country?