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Still Sensible

(2,870 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2015, 04:09 PM Mar 2015

What part of "Congress shall make no law..."

do these dipshits not understand?

GOP Lawmaker: Air Force Cadets Must Pledge To God…There Is No ‘Freedom From Religion’

Another day and another Republican lawmaker wants to impose his religious beliefs on anyone and everyone he can think of. Only this time, the imposition would be upon members of the United States armed forces.

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http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/03/24/gop-lawmaker-air-force-cadets-must-pledge-to-god-there-is-no-freedom-from-religion/

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What part of "Congress shall make no law..." (Original Post) Still Sensible Mar 2015 OP

he is 84 and needs to be at home playing w/his grandchildren. CurtEastPoint Mar 2015 #1

Freedom of religion can't exist unless there is freedom from religion Major Nikon Mar 2015 #2

I think the problem is what they DO understand FiveGoodMen Mar 2015 #3

Except that should it be possible to do "something about it" truedelphi Mar 2015 #4

So it's government of, by, and for those 90% constitution-violating, god-bothering, war-mongering FiveGoodMen Mar 2015 #5

It is a government only if a feudal system that rewards the "nobility" and truedelphi Mar 2015 #6

The question is: CAN we get it back to something resembling what we were all taught it was? FiveGoodMen Mar 2015 #7

I would say considering the fact that the conditions of a Totalitarian State are truedelphi Mar 2015 #10

You may well be right FiveGoodMen Mar 2015 #12

Of course, these days, simply posting can get you arrested. truedelphi Mar 2015 #14

gop = freedumb Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #8

I've never really understood why anyone would want to join the military. You really do sign your liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 #9

I wager half join because they have to awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #13

They want to rip up the constitution of the United States! B Calm Mar 2015 #11

CurtEastPoint

(18,664 posts)

1. he is 84 and needs to be at home playing w/his grandchildren.

Reply to Still Sensible (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 04:15 PM

Mar 2015

And stfu.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

2. Freedom of religion can't exist unless there is freedom from religion

Reply to Still Sensible (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 05:23 PM

Mar 2015

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

3. I think the problem is what they DO understand

Reply to Still Sensible (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 05:37 PM

Mar 2015

They DO understand that they can violate that and not spend the rest of their lives in a cell.

And we should do something about that.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

4. Except that should it be possible to do "something about it"

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 05:39 PM

Mar 2015

90% of all the Congressional critters would have a lot of "splaining" to do.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

5. So it's government of, by, and for those 90% constitution-violating, god-bothering, war-mongering

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:12 PM

Mar 2015

criminals.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

6. It is a government only if a feudal system that rewards the "nobility" and

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:17 PM

Mar 2015

continually enslaves most of the rest of us can be considered a government.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

7. The question is: CAN we get it back to something resembling what we were all taught it was?

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:19 PM

Mar 2015

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

10. I would say considering the fact that the conditions of a Totalitarian State are

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:23 PM

Mar 2015

Now fully empowered, the answer would be "No!"

Any individual running for higher office must now totally support the endless wars, the Austerity programs for the poor and middle class, and the enrichment of the Top Corporations, with Federal monies mainly for the military and Surveillance, and for insuring that corporations like Big Pharma and Big Genetic Engineering get the go ahead for their products, from Corporate-Controlled agencies, while organic farmers have their crops plowed under, their vitamins seized etc.

School systems in California are in terrible shape. The libraries for the public are being shut down.
But no one in power cares if the populace is educated any more - far better for those in power that it is not.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

12. You may well be right

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #10)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:27 PM

Mar 2015

(In that case, though, there's absolutely no reason for a site like this one except to give us all a chance to vent)

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

14. Of course, these days, simply posting can get you arrested.

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #12)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 03:51 PM

Mar 2015

Idaho's top "Cop Blocker" blogger, Matthew Townsend, was recently arrested for a posting he put up on facebook.

I believe that in the post on FB, all he did was describe the latest police intimidation tactics that have been used against him, as he tried to educate fellow citizens about their rights when
they' re threatened by police.

Here is a link:

http://www.copblock.org/117190/mathew-townsend-felony-charge-facebook-post/