Where do you draw the line? How do you share Liberty without loosing it?
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As the saying goes, limit to ones freedom is when it encroaches someone else's.  I would draw a parallel here to answer your question.  \n\nTHe line to sharing liberty is where it diminishes the country's overall capacity for liberty.  It is just impractical to grant refuge and peace for all who are seeking a better life and taking advantage of the US not to mention the huddled masses.\n\nHow in the world can we share liberty considering one aspect, of health coverage, when 40 million Americans have no medical insurance?  when going at the current rate, Medicare would be bankcrupt in less than 30 years?\n\nWe can only afford those whose lives are in danger if turned away for now.  Until we get our houses in order, that's where I would vote the line to be drawn.
145413
Catch a wake up, you obviously on the other side.\n\nOh well, everyone has the right to their own point of view.
46968
It's very close.  I mean, by definition people in a society are not 'free'.  They all agree through social contracts and constructs to limit their behavior to the de facto 'rules'.  People can't be allowed to go running around doing just whatever they want.
1134669
Damn man, you are almost right on target with me. You have to prioritize what is most important to you.  Unlike the lamo who brought up the power plant,  look at real everyday situations.  I found myself closest to Libertarian, since personal freedoms and a small central government is most important to me.  Since you balance your budget you are definitely NOT GOP or DNC.  I think you need to define in you own views what "general welfare" entails.  I believe the gov should provide a safety net far too many have become addicted and dependent on the "free" money.  Plus I dislike the fact that it costs the feds $12 to deliver $1 in welfare.  So, I rationalize MY social welfare as only non-ablebodied people can get it for more than one year at a time. If you can not get a job then you have a choice to enter the military or civil service.\n\nGood luck...and thank you for all your good posts\n\n\nThen you are right with me  or I with you
36566
Your country can only be free if there are certain rules to ensure your freedom. If everyone were completely free from rules, we would be spending most of our time guarding our property.
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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL WHO CAN AFFORD IT \n\n GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT \n unfortunately that is how the law really works
1061312
While some look at it as a conflict, others believe it to be free speech.  I personally believe in the later.  The "libertarian" view is the best to me.  No laws, no limits, but mandated reporting.  Lets just see where the money comes from.  The best law I think they could impose is mandatory 24 hour reporting.  Meaning within 24 hours of money hitting a campaign account it has to be listed on a web site - sourced completely.  At least this way we see who is trying to buy who.
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In my opinion I would say some type of common understanding.  People have to share some type of belief, not necessarily religious, that bonds them.  Even if you always disagree with someone, you can have a common understanding that you both have a right to exist.  Common understandings serve as building blocks for a civilization.  When there aren't many common understandings, the base of the civilization will weak.
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I write letters to my congressmen about the erosion of our freedoms under the republicans.  I write letters to the editor of my local newspaper about the erosion of our freedoms under republicans, I give money to he ACLU and and I challenge people who think it's OK to lay your freedom at the feet of authority, like Republicans.
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Its up to you.  You can let other people fight for your freedom if you are okay with that.  Enjoy.
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You miss the point here. Liberals feel they have the right to tell everyone else what to do as well as telling everyone else they don't pay enough in taxes. However, do not DARE to tell a liberal what to do or to pay more taxes. That is simply not how their "system" "works". \n\nThis is typical. Just like all the Hollywood libs telling us to use less gas and buy more eco-friendly... then they jet off to NYC or Paris for 2 days in a private jet or drive their Hummers around town.\n\nTONAL: What is your point? It is stil PRIVATE property. The owner has the right to do whatever he wants with it when he wants. There is no contract on the property. These people are preventing a legal and free American Citizen from using his property as HE sees fit.
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as in we have a right to live in peace, without fear of being killed, harmed , toutured or imprisonet aginast our will, ot have our civil liberties violated .ect... who guanrantees it?\nwe do\nmy role in your right\nnoly to defend it if need be, otherwise you are free to puruse your life as you see fit
350920
Clearly liberty.  By placing limits on government power, individuals are given liberty of thought, speech and action.
744366
fiscal by light years... social issues are the ones no one can agree on and hardly ever change... and it's America... land of the free... do what you want, as long as it doesn't get in the way of someone else...
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your on the right track buddy many including me didnt notice and kind of didnt realise yet youve kind of worked it out for your self ,many people just go on about there lives and it doesnt even occur to them our governments could be working against us .all through out history governments and people that put them selves in high places eventually try to enslave the people they are suposed to be working for ,yet people dont seem to learn this lesson and history repeats itself .the main way in which they do it is by problem ,reaction,solution.they create the problem ,then they get the reaction from the people and then they give the solution in which they pass laws that affect the rights of the people yet the people dont see any thing wrong in that because the government is there to help us right ?these laws they pass will end up affecting us all .this subject is so vast and goes so far back that the picture is so big alot of people find it hard to comprehend any way i was lucky to stumble acrosss this link from someone on here and it totally woke me up to whats going on around us http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm  any way from everything youve said your on target.\n\n"people that give away neccesary liberty for tempoary safety deserve neither liberty or safety" benjamin franklin
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None.  I don't want BIG government controlling my life - or my kid's lives - laying claim on them for any period of time.  "Mandatory" and "Freedom" do not generally mesh well together.
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As a proud American citisen, I 100% support there legal right to do it, if it is on public property. But let me tell you, if it was a family member/friend/anybody I knew, the minute any protestor (be it peace/war/gay/holy-roller) step one hair across my property line without my permission, thier carcas is mine! I belive strongly in free speach, so on public property, as much as I'd like to rip thier damn sighs right out of thier hands, and break it over thier heads, I do not, because I actualy do belive in gay rights (even though I am not gay, I support freedom, unlike some), and most importantly I belive in free speach FOR ALL, no matter how much they pi$$ me off. If they did this at a funeral that I was in attendance, I would use my freedom of speach to chant inflamitory remarks, and mock the protestors. Also, if they approached me, or somone else to where I thought they/me were threatened, I would not hesitate to draw my 45cal in the name of self defense, and make a citisens arrest (I am a strong believer in vigilante justicE). As for cursing in public, I could care less as long as I can curse back at the M****r F*****s (I can proudly hold my own in a cursing match, and have a very loud voice). I hate (scratch that, Royaly Dispise) anybody that has/is/will use a funeral for ANY kind of protest, even if I agree with what they're protesting, but like I said, I hold back my hatred on public property, but the minute they cross onto my property I will shoot to kill (once again, weather I agree, or dissagree with them)...\n\n...and this is coming from a fiscaly conservative, social liberal (independant, pro gay rights, anti IRAQ war, not anti Afghanistan war, anti Bush/Bushite)...\nCan you even begin to imagine how mad/dangerous I would be if I were some right-stealing republican/right-winger/"conservative"/holy-roller/(you get the idea) or If I were a democrat/left-winger/"liberal/baby-killer/(you get the idea).\n\n\nBottom line...\nPeople on both sides get me so pi$$ed off, and either side (the demoncraps or retardicans) will object to (or promote) free speach when it is convienient for them (agrees with them), it is unAmerican, and makes me sick.\n\nI am for these individules legal rights to protest/curse/whatever on private property for any reason, at any time, however to do so at somones funeral (one of our great, fallen american heroes, none the less), is dispicable, and should be looked down on by society with great hatred\n\nBesides isn't it irony that they be so rude to those who who died so that they could be so rude? I'm sure it really helps whatever cause they're protesting (sarcasm).\n\nJust because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD\n\nIt's like burning the American flag on american soil (I support peoples rights to do this as well, even though I find it sickening), isn't it ironic that they burn the flag of a nation, that allows them to burn the flag (irony? ANYBODY), and also the same country of which they are most likely citisens? Try doing that in Iran, with the Iranian flag, SEE WHAT HAPPENS! in the end, that is what makes America great, that we are free to do as we please, no matter how stupid it is, and I say we should have a counter protest (an even louder/more obsene one) against the dirt-bags that would dare to protest at ANYBODY'S funeral for ANY reason.\n\nMay the government of, by, and for itself be torn down, and destroyed... and the government of, by, and for the people rise again!\n\nGod bless the REAL America!