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Old 02-22-2013, 12:45 PM
 
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Oh my ... the lack of fundamental logic is breathtaking. You have freedom of speech, since no one has duct taped your mouth shut ... but we can jail you or kill you if we don't like what you say.

Do you really think this way ... or are you just pulling people's legs here?
not big on reading, i see
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Old 02-22-2013, 01:50 PM
 
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The US has so many laws it is mind numbing. You can just look around at what surrounds you and what you do on a daily basis and there are heaps of restrictions/laws/regulations/etc. There are laws about how tall your fence is...or what color tarp you can use to cover your hay bale...or if you put glass in the plastic recycle container or.......
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Old 02-22-2013, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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The fact that anyone with half a brain would look to Alex Jones for anything shows how mentally disturbed they are, truly. Only nutjobs take anything that nutjob has to say seriously. And that is a fact.
If some nutjob on MSNBC spouted the same rhetoric, you would swallow it, hook, line, and sinker! And then come here to talk about it.
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Old 02-22-2013, 03:51 PM
 
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We never really had that many rights to begin with, and our government has always been oppressive. In spite of this, Alex Jones is playing up to the crazies, I don't think he believes half the garbage he peddles.
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Read the link then tell me that with a straight face.
I read enough of it to realize it was tendentious, incomprehensible gobbledy-goop.

If you want to offer up a list of these rights we've supposedly lost, I'd be happy to look at it. But I'm certainly not going to waste my time searching for gold coins in that bucket of mud.
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:08 PM
 
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Read the link then tell me that with a straight face.
I've read the link and I really don't believe a word of it. I just roll my eyes when I read that.
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:09 PM
 
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You are too young then. I am old enough to have seen so many rights and freedoms gone right out the window, especially over the last 50 years.
More than 50 years ago, there was a segment of American society that didn't have right, or their rights were never respected.
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:16 PM
 
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A lot of our freedoms are being lost through excessive taxation.

It's almost impossible to start a small business; i.e., lemonaide stands.

It's almost impossible to build an outbuilding on your property.

Shoot, thanks to 0boy and SCHIP, it's impossible to smoke a cigarette without taking out a loan.
This post should appear under "hyperbole" or maybe just "horsecrap" in Webster's Dictionary.

Or is Dale just bitter because her lemonade stand-outdoor smoker's lounge never got off the ground?
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:17 PM
 
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What percentage of Americans are addicted to nonsense in the way the OP is addicted to it?
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Old 02-22-2013, 07:50 PM
 
Location: North Carolina
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I've read the link and I really don't believe a word of it. I just roll my eyes when I read that.
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What percentage of Americans are addicted to nonsense in the way the OP is addicted to it?
Guess neither of you is to quick on the draw eh? For every example he puts links to examples of how the right was destroyed or clamped down on.
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