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how did america forget what freedom was?

we live in a country founded on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

but our bill of rights entrenches personal liberty and freedoms. being alive is really the bare minimum if people have the ability to silence you and take your property away.

is it acceptable for the government to listen to everything you say without your knowledge?

is there a limit to what you can say about the president or the government?

do i have the right to make my own beliefs and state them?

these three all hinge on each other: will i say what i think about the government when the government can arrest me for doing so?

do we have to make this choice?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    you have been arrested?

  • 1 decade ago

    There are several separate issues that I see while reading your statements. The first one that comes to mind is that I agree to a certain point. I want to believe that the U.S. was founded by people who wanted the citizens to be happy and free to be themselves, as long as it didn't infringe upon the rights of other citizens.

    One thing however that I find missing as people from the past and the present talk about 'freedom' is the fact that any freedom or power of any kind should come with a responsibility. A person with any power should not use whatever that power is to debase or disrespect another human being.

    This makes for a tricky situation, because we have so many beliefs. I'm just wondering why we can't have our own beliefs but just share them with like-minded people, and not try to push them off on other people.

    Take religion and atheism for instance; why can't the bible thumpers only share their views with each other, and the athiests as well. Why can't we keep from thrusting our views upon others, unless asked for?

    I do understand the anger of people who are against the government and feel helpless to stop them from doing the things these people feel is wrong. The only answer I would have to this, is to use our rights as citizens to vote much and often, and get together with fellow thinkers to strengthen the resolve to make change for the better.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because peoples are scared by "terrorists" and forget eveything else, and just obey like sheeps. Because we are governed by Skull and Bone society members, US lodge of the Bavarian Illuminati.

    The Illuminati are forging the "right major crisis" they need to make the Nations accept their New World order, ruled by the martial law.

    They are the Illuminatis, and they own us,

    This is the New World Order, and it is your future if the world don't wake up :

    Bush and Kerry | Skull and Bone : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8150571337...

    "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"

    Project for the New American Century (2000)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_A...

    “Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

    Hermann Göring(Nazi) 1946 Confessions (Nuremberg Diary)

    http://www.snopes2.com/quotes/goering.htm

    "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

    David Rockefeller: Statement to the United Nations Business Council in September 1994

    "For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with other around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefellers memoirs (2002)

    Make you investigations about Jesuits, the New World Order, the Illuminatis, the Free-Masonery, the Death Clan. They plan a world reduction of population of 80%...Far worse than Hitler...

    They are preparing us for 2012, for the New Age, of Relelations, and the return of « God » from Nibiru.

    “the zenith meridian at Giza runs through Jupiter at the Hyades in Taurus”, this means “the kingdom (Jupiter) will be restored to Egypt (Taurus) at that precise moment. Thus, Osiris, the Bull of Egypt, will return from the dead at 22:18:13 on December 21, 2012.” El Cairo time.

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    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Political expansion and party activism has led to bigger Government.

    While claiming the other party wants bigger Government the current administration has increased the size of it's cabinet and also created numerous new branches of Government.

    This massive expansion has a numbing effect on the citizenry. Complacency spawned from protectionist government has lulled America into giving up all that or forefathers fought for.

    Go big Red Go

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The bill of rights has been eroded over a number of years and with it going a little at a time then nobody pays enough attention to our loss. I am hoping it is like a pendulam clock and things will swing back the other way for awhile. That is one of the things that make the upcoming election so important.

  • 1 decade ago

    They bought into the belief that the government should be making personal decisions, and the government should be determining how people live and what they watch and where they eat.

    They abdicated personal responsibility, both as individuals and by not holding govt officials accountable for their actions. Thus emboldened, the govt continued to regulate more, strict more, require more paperwork and more licenses and less liberties.

    We only have those rights that we choose to defend. And when too many people stop defending their rights, we all lose them.

    Source(s): In honor of Pastor Martin Niemöller: First they came for the 6th Amendment, but I hadn't been accused of a crime, so I didn't object to denial of counsel. Then they came for the 4th Amendment, but I wasn't talking to anyone overseas, so they wouldn't be monitoring me. Then they came for the rest of the 4th Amendment, but I only called my mother, so there was nothing suspicious in my phone records. Then they came for the 1st Amendment, but I never associated with criminals, so I didn't worry about being convicted purely based on what other people might do. Then they came for the 14th Amendment, but I never really understood the rules for Due Process (and wasn't allowed an attorney), so I didn't object. Then they came for the rest of the 1st Amendment, but I never told anyone about what the government was doing, so again I remained silent. Then they came for the 5th Amendment, ...... and I no longer had the right to remain silent.
  • 1 decade ago

    slowly it disappeared right before our eye's.THE aclu put up a fight but for 40 years they have won few battles and have lost the war .

    TO many bandwagon people out there .Affraid to go it alone they climb on board and hang out feeling safety in numbers and giving away there freedom is ok as long as they remain part of the group .

    IN the inner city they call them gangs .In the suburbs they call them political groups and no matter which one we pick the lawyers and government continue to take our freedoms one by one and make us pay for the privilage .

    IT is to bd that this had to happen in america but no one remembers what real freedom was and was about .

    TO many kids arrested in the 60's and 70's that got kicked out of schools .NOT really but they used it to scar the rest of them and told them to fly right or end up in prison or hell religion was big back then .

  • 1 decade ago

    40 years of intense liberalism will do that to a country. Like communists, they do not believe in property rights.

    If the FBI believes you have ties to terrorists, you are going to be bugged, plain and simple. And I agree with that.

    But, never in our history could you threaten the life of a president without causing some kind of trouble. And I agree with that too.

  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorism prompted America to curtail freedom by looking into bank accounts and tapping wires in order to trace the malefactors.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yet you say nothing about the blatent disregard of the 2nd amendment by Clinton..

  • 1 decade ago

    not only freedom they forgot wht does chilldren means weak women, the right to live in peace

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