Comments on: America Closing Her Door to Freedom http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/ Old Right Libertarian & Conservative Politics, Economics, and Opinion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: theCL http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-4283 theCL Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:07:05 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=6960#comment-4283 Bob, I'm with you! But I don't think we need a list per se ... we've lost so many freedoms, it's almost impossible to count! Sad. Very, very sad. Bob, I'm with you!

But I don't think we need a list per se ... we've lost so many freedoms, it's almost impossible to count! Sad. Very, very sad.

]]> By: Bob http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-4252 Bob Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:03:07 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=6960#comment-4252 I was sick of my freedoms being taken away by Government, so I ran a search on Google to see if anyone else has notice these incermental changes that has eroded our freedoms over the last 4 decades. We need a compehesive list of all the freedoms lost over years by local, county, state and Federal Goverments in all 50 states. I have had it and I am ready to fight for my freedoms back. Not just for me, but for my childern. Bob I was sick of my freedoms being taken away by Government, so I ran a search on Google to see if anyone else has notice these incermental changes that has eroded our freedoms over the last 4 decades. We need a compehesive list of all the freedoms lost over years by local, county, state and Federal Goverments in all 50 states. I have had it and I am ready to fight for my freedoms back. Not just for me, but for my childern.

Bob

]]> By: theCL http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 theCL Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:03:19 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=6960#comment-2867 It's troubling. It's troubling.

]]> By: Cylar http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2866 Cylar Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:34:30 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=6960#comment-2866 And so often when you point this out to people, you not only get a blank stare, they actually want to argue with you. Government and media and education...have taught them about all these bogeymen that "the people" must be protected from - global warming, secondhand smoke, asbestos....and of course, the eeeevil "Christian Right." What I find the funniest about this creeping socialism is that many of the countries that have experienced the "hard" version now want no part of it. I'm talking Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, etc. And so often when you point this out to people, you not only get a blank stare, they actually want to argue with you. Government and media and education...have taught them about all these bogeymen that "the people" must be protected from - global warming, secondhand smoke, asbestos....and of course, the eeeevil "Christian Right."

What I find the funniest about this creeping socialism is that many of the countries that have experienced the "hard" version now want no part of it. I'm talking Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, etc.

]]> By: theCL http://the-classic-liberal.com/america-closing-her-door-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-1883 theCL Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:47:31 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=6960#comment-1883 Kerry, It's amazing to me how many people seem to cherish "the good old days" when neighborhoods were friendlier, streets were safe, etc., etc ... What they all seem to forget though, is that there were a lot fewer laws too! The knee-jerk rebuttal to that point of view is, "we have more laws today, because crime is more rampant." My answer to that is, "try looking at the correlation the other way around." To use the War on Drugs as an example, when drugs weren't illegal, we didn't have militarized gangs selling the stuff, nor militarized police combating them. The militarization of the drug industry developed in response to the War ... not the other way around. Laws have unintended consequences too. Kerry,

It's amazing to me how many people seem to cherish "the good old days" when neighborhoods were friendlier, streets were safe, etc., etc ...

What they all seem to forget though, is that there were a lot fewer laws too!

The knee-jerk rebuttal to that point of view is, "we have more laws today, because crime is more rampant." My answer to that is, "try looking at the correlation the other way around."

To use the War on Drugs as an example, when drugs weren't illegal, we didn't have militarized gangs selling the stuff, nor militarized police combating them.

The militarization of the drug industry developed in response to the War ... not the other way around. Laws have unintended consequences too.

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