DUmmies claim they want freedom.

[thundley4]

sudopod (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 08:33 PM
Original message
Maybe a free people should accept a small elevation in risk
   
Edited on Wed Nov-24-10 09:00 PM by sudopod
as the price of being free.

Edit: Does anyone disagree?

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bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 08:37 PM
Response to Original message
1. aw, crud-a-rama..... I went to hit rec and got the unrec instead.   
   
Sorry! 

Could someone please cancel out my accidental unrec?

I don't even know that it would be a "rise" at all.... There are so many unplugged loopholes elsewhere...

A "free people" can never be entirely safe... but as risks go, this is a relatively small one, when one compares.

Hey bobo the hobo, you have the freedom to get a job and stop being a leech any time.

FiveGoodMen   (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 08:37 PM
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2. Ben Franklin thought so.
   
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

DUmmies deserve to be in prison, then.

bemildred   (1000+ posts)           Wed Nov-24-10 08:43 PM
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4. Absolute security is not to be had.
   
Free or not.

sudopod (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 08:46 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. but, what if they try to make us get sharia law like they got in Texas? nt

WTF?     You DUmmies may see Sharia Law here if we don't start cracking down on Muslims.

sudopod (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 08:53 PM
Response to Reply #9
11. It seems like we'll be left with three rights in the end.
   
The rights to work, consume, and die. :/

Too bad most DUmmies concentrate on number and not one and three.

Curmudgeoness   (1000+ posts)           Wed Nov-24-10 09:16 PM
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14. Give me liberty or give me death, anyone?
   
Freedom isn't free. I agree that we should accept more risk to keep more freedom.

It wasn't this bad under President Bush, but give a Marxist like Obama the same powers that President Bush had and wham.

BadGimp   (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 09:36 PM
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16. I ABSOLUTELY agree
   
I ain't afraid of terrorists, and I'm prepared to risk my life and the lives of my fellow Americans to keep my freedoms and liberties.

I'm afraid of American who want to take away my freedoms and liberties.

You should be worried about the Kenyan that is taking away freedoms.

[Freeper]

BadGimp   (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 09:36 PM
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16. I ABSOLUTELY agree
   
I ain't afraid of terrorists, and I'm prepared to risk my life and the lives of my fellow Americans to keep my freedoms and liberties.

I'm afraid of American who want to take away my freedoms and liberties.

You goons can't even handle a talking head on the tv or voice on the radio presenting a different view than your own. I seriously doubt you have the guts to face a terrorist.

[true_blood]

BadGimp   (1000+ posts)             Wed Nov-24-10 09:36 PM
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16. I ABSOLUTELY agree I ain't afraid of terrorists, and I'm prepared to risk my life and the lives of my fellow Americans to keep my freedoms and liberties.
I'm afraid of American who want to take away my freedoms and liberties.

In that case, you must be frightened of the imposter and all the socialists and communists he surrounds himself with.