How free America really is? How many of our civil rights are broken everyday?
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Civil rights violations are quite common... especially among minorities and women.\n\nAmerica isn't free...... it's actually very expensive. \nAnd very prejudiced. \nAnd very materialistic.  \nAnd very competitive. \nAnd very hypocritical.\n\nThat's why I live in Europe.
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The so-called "Patriot Act" is anything BUT patriotic. It is in direct voilation to our civil rights. This is a travesty since so many people who have come before, fought and died to ensure our civil liberties. We as Americans need to stress to our Congressmen and our Senetors that we will NOT stand for a government that tries to over-ride our civil rights and our very freedom!
709757
Unbelievable. Perhaps another Civil war is not so far-fetched. I have huge concerns that basic civil rights are ignored. Of course Republicans are fooled as well, Bush's highway goes right through threre...
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America is a free country until the Democrats wrest full control.  So until then a person can wear what they wish.
655777
Well, the civil war didn't end the attrocities being committed against blacks being treated as sub-humans.  I would hope that everyone would be educated about civil liberties which have been perverted by the left wing in this country.\n\nSamuel Adams said:\n\nAmong the rights of the colonists are these:\nfirst, to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; along with the right to support and defend them.\n\nCivil rights is one indicator of how civilized a nation is. Abortion is the most barbaric act against an innocent and helpless human being. In reality, and when compared to slavery, we are far more barbaric than 50 and 200 years ago.\n\nCivility and etiquette are not part of modern society. People of todays generation have perverted natural law and the meaning of civil liberties to mean selfishness. It is appauling and disgusting. When civil liberty is perverted to mean, "I can do whatever I want and have a right to privacy." we have totally ignored our civic duties. \n\nThis is a GOOD QUESTION! Civil rights go in a sequential order as Samuel Adams (father of the American revolution) expressed to the continental congress in 1772.  The recent Supreme Court decision is an example of how we are regressing in civil liberties. Quite often those who want to keep abortion legal would belittle what was written 200 years ago as if it has no relevance.  In effect, they want to play God!
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None in reality.!!\n\nWhy! Black Gold!!\n\n\n"We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights, endowed by a Creator."\nSource: The New York Times, "Reporter's Notebook; Skipping Borders, Tripping Diction," David E. Sanger, May 28, 2002 \n\n\nI told you he never read it!
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You are in a time warp. Slavery ended nearly 60 years ago. You are sure you haven't woken up from deep sleep like Rip Van Winkle or better still Kumbhkaran ? We are a free democratic country with duly elected government by people now in the year 2006..Wake up buddy !
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America is free the home of the brave! I am sick and tired of everyone saying how FREE we are, we are not FREE...Look around...... I Fought for this Country for 6 1/2 years and did I receive anything??????? Hell no and what for? Where is everyone else and why didn't they join the armed forces? \nWhy should  i have risked MY life for alot of bystanders!
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NO ONE is really free. because the govt. alwayz gotta control what we do! in a way das good and bad at da same time!
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man i have been there. \nHere is a trick, start with "Slavery destroyed more families than anything else in america". then write your ass off. you will get sympathy instead of facts.
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America stands for freedom.  However freedom doesn't come free.
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The problem appears to be mainly in Europe.  I've seen that special.  Europe has not had a civil rights movement like we've had here in the States.  This is one of the things that separates us from the rest of the world.  We are at least trying to do something about racism.  In Europe it has always been accepted; look at all the "ethnic cleansing" that has, and still goes on.  People in the States just don't know how lucky they are.  Anybody who think that they have it so bad here, should try living outside the US for a few years.  Not just visit, but actually live there.  They will come back to the US and be thankful that their country is trying to make everyone's quality of life better.
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No and freedom is not free!!!!!
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please get your facts straight.  "Millions of americans"....PLEASE!!!!
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Brother, Our freedoms have ended long back. Its a country where people with doubts and critical thoughts are labeled nut jobs and discounted. you know what I mean. It can only get worse unfortunately unless we actively do something about it.
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Your real freedoms are not being taken away by Uncle Sam... its the state governments who are doing it, one right at a time.  It looks like its all for the common good; seat belt laws, no cell phones while driving, child seats, the state taking children for suspected abuse, gun control, zoning ordinances...\n\nBut little by little basic freedoms are being erased in the name of common good.  Soon it will be so common to have restrictions placed on our behaviors and activities that we won't notice when our personal freedom is slowly taken by the state not for the common good, but as a means of control.\n\nSo don't look at the feds but at the statehouse and local government.  Its the local government who will excercise eminent domain and give you assesed value, not market value, for it so a political crony can build a strip mall or another McMansion.
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Yep, I am glad to live in Oklahoma and be a part of the USA. It's not perfect, but it's home. It's up to us to make it better, to try to live up to the high standards our founding fathers set down for us. It isn't easy, and we do fail. Sometimes we even take rights away, have all kinds of civil unrest and debate, but in the end we somehow start making things right again. As a gay American, that gives me hope that I'll be treated as a full and equal citizen someday and not just a second class or third class citizen who pays taxes.