How is America free?
Freedom isn't the ability to choose which church you have to go to, it's the ability to sleep in every Sunday morning because you want to.
i.e. We pay taxes to fund the construction of roads. The government then sets out rules, and charges and/or imprisons us for breaking them. This is "freedom."
Our country was founded on rights, not order. All laws should be representative of the harm principle, and nothing more.
Eliminate speed limits (put in speed advisories, no accident no problem)
Noise violations (go talk with your neighbor, move, or deal with it. Isn't government's job.)
Age restrictions for purchasing 'adult' items/beverages (that's called parenting)
Morality laws (2girls1cup is illegal. sick? absolutely. But illegal...?!?!?)
Blue laws (1st amendment pwn)
religious laws (1st amendment pwn)
drug laws (more 1st amendment pwnage)
curfews (more parenting. worry about your own kids)
government spying (see revolution)
speech restrictions (see revolt)
etc.
Police and those in power are easily corruptible, and many efforts to hinder an officer's ability to unfairly wield that power should be promoted and encouraged. More laws only mean more criminals. Freedom is lost in the name of 'protection' and 'security.'
A strong majority of our country favors a near immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Bush neither cares nor acknowledges this. By the people, for the people?
No police state calls itself as such. Our system is in no way representative of anything remotely democratic or republican. Stalin killed millions of his own people in a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. He called it communism.
I'm only asking you to read between the lines. If you live in a state of repression labeled freedom long enough, you forget to realize what freedom really could be.
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