Do we deserve our freedom?
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You deserve what you earn.\n\nThere is no "Freedom Giveaway" by your God (The Government).\n\nIf you sit around and demand freedoms, you will be enslaved by those that you wait on.\n\nIn the US, the welfare system has slaves, Social Security has slaves, Credit Card Companies have slaves ("Get the card YOU deserve!") and hundreds more Programs and Businesses because fat-headed people think freedom is free.\n\nYou have to earn freedom, fight for it, pay for it and, sometimes, die for it.\n\nYou have your freedom now because people before you sacrificed to give it to you.\n\nThe way you're acting, it won't be long before you sell yourselves into slavery.\n\n"Soon the time will come when we have to choose between what is easy and what is right" (from Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire)\n\nThe time is now.  Choose or someone will choose for you.\n\nThank you for your time.
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everyone should feel they are worthy of existence, none of us has exclusive rights to exist.  The problems on our earth occur when sections of society take it upon themselves to decide another group is less worthy.\nif you tell a person too many times they are less than deserving then they will begin to believe that.\nAcceptance of everyone's right to be individuals and still contribute to society would benefit everyone
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NO\n\nhow do you think we got our freedom by standing back.\n\nin the public eyes iraq does not deserve freedom like ours.  we need keep fighting the terrorist for the people OF THE WORLD from the terrorist who rule it.  and we are not dictator we are freedom fighters who fight for FREEDOM,  JUSTICE AND LIBERTY.  unfortunitly people lost sight of it  and voted wrong yesterday.  \n\nand morally we are now also headed in the wrong direction.  people need to be responible for their action and not blame it on science or the society.\n\nfinally for the budget there goes the state and national level budget and economy and our taxes.  people what things to be in place for a better country and community.  but who do you think we pay for it in the long run.  we do with our taxes, not with the so called federal and state money people think we have.\n\n country is in a mess thanks to the ungrateful american public who forget how our free
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When we open our doors to freedom we forgot how to close them. We do more for others then we do for our own. I think it needs to stop.
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Along with one's freedom comes responsibility. They are inseparable. Irresponsibility puts the burden onto those who act responsibly. Is that fair?
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It's not. It's saving the Iraqi's freedoms. Are you so selfish to think that we are the only country worthy of freedom?\n\nI've been there. I saw women beaten and raped on the streets by Saddam's Death Squads, people disappearing and kidnapped everywhere, women denied very basic rights and privileges like education or respect, the people's money stolen to build palaces with actual rivers rerouted to flow through them, zero social programs but an immense military, etc. \n\nThis country once fought tooth and nail for it's own freedoms many times over but the further we get from those brave generations the more the current generation will be ungrateful for all they did.
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No, we should follow the worlds wishes on this one. We are mistreating those prisoners and that lowers us to their status. It is just wrong.
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No war imposed from outside can give people the freedom in my personal view.  It is like someone giving you your livelihood...  it becomes a hand out, if you do not earn it.  It is okay to assist those who are fighting for freedom. If anyone truly deserves freedom, it is the poor palestinians who have been abused and kicked around for more than fifty years and we have a lot of clout to give them freedom, as we are active participants in TAKING AWAY their freedom, as we provide a lot of aid to Israel, some of which is used to take their freedom.  \n\nAnyone with half a brain knows that freedom for Iraqis is just a political ploy, an excuse to do the dirty work of Israel.  Plus, if Iraq did not have oil, we would let them die and rot like we do most  in several conflicts in Africa, Asia and elsewhere.  \n\nThat is my opinion on this issue.
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Absolutely. We need some form of ethical direction in our lives.
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as a member, yes. \n\nanytime they defend freedom, ANYBODY'S freedom, they speak for all of us, even the idiots who think they are a bad thing.
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Freedom is the only value I have, understand and will protect at any cost. I feel u share similar points of view to a life.\nThere is a freedom! Even a prisoner has got one if he wants to, your mind is free and one can stop u thinking until u're dead.
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give them their rights
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That's What They Want You To Think. We're All Slaves Around Here!!!! As Long As We Have To Work For Someone Under Their Rules, I Could Never Say We Are Free!!! We're Just Slaves With Privileges.....
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No, we should not ignore this. I do believe that everyone has a right to come to this country to make a better life for themselves, but I believe that you should have to earn this right. Living with the rights that we do have is a privilege.
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no has and that is ok\n\nhow do you think we got our freedom by standing back.\n\nin the public eyes iraq does not deserve freedom like ours.  we need keep fighting the terrorist for the people OF THE WORLD from the terrorist who rule it.  and we are not dictator we are freedom fighters who fight for FREEDOM,  JUSTICE AND LIBERTY.  unfortunitly people lost sight of it  and voted wrong yesterday.  \n\nand morally we are now also headed in the wrong direction.  people need to be responible for their action and not blame it on science or the society.\n\n\n\n country is in a mess thanks to the ungrateful american public who forget how our free
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If you give up freedom for security, you'll end up with neither.  This is paraphrasing a statement made by that Ben Franklin guy several years ago :)  I think it's true, though.  Who cares if you are safe, if you have no freedom? If I locked you up in a box and kept you under my bed, I could totally protect you and keep you safe from everything... but would it be worth it?
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We have freedom of choice.  Some choose to be bad.