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SQUEE

(1,315 posts)
4. Yup, I dont want any regulation over either of those, so we can move on now to
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 04:59 PM
Feb 2013

Dis-empowering the IMC and the 1%

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
2. How about the part where businesses and libraries
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 04:37 PM
Feb 2013

hand over your information to the government without a warrant? (fighting doing so can result in jail time)

PATRIOT act, indeed ...

patrice

(47,992 posts)
3. I think it likely that many of us have forgotten or, actually, have never known Liberty, so
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 04:49 PM
Feb 2013

a good test for persons making this statement about that there "tree of Liberty" that needs watering, with someone else's blood, btw, would be to ask them, "What would be too high a price to pay for your gun ownership?" and, though it could include money, I don't mean just exclusively money.

How long do you think before we see this question in one of those books of questions that people are recommending as ice-breakers or for get-to-know-other-people party games and such?

patrice

(47,992 posts)
5. In a country that defined certain limitations on the liberty of enfranchisement in the Constitution
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 05:11 PM
Feb 2013

that then became the basis of incorporation/corporate-personhood and contract laws that further codified economic discrimination in the foundations of American history, I think my case that I have no reason to trust just anyone who uses that word, "Liberty", to mean the same thing that I am referring to when I consider the American experience, is justified.

In short, the proposal that we are to kill and to be killed for something that we very likely do not share either literally or in our understandings and, also, that anyone who opposes that proposition is suspect and un-patriotic according to "Constitutional" standards, that we also do not share due to economic injustice and corporate personhood, is suspect in and of itself.

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