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Originally posted by Ghost&Lliandrin
I love my country I really do however, as Al Franken put it in "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them", "You see, they(conservatives) love Americca the way a four-year old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a four-year old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention nd work and is the best thing in the world. "
I really like how he put that. The only thing is is the neo conservative group has taken so much power that even by loving our country with "grown up" love there doesn't seem to be a lot we can do for it. It's frustrating that in the "land of the free" we have to stand by every day as we lose more and more freedom. It is really scary what's happening, but what's worse is that no one seems able to stop it. Of course we are better off than other people but we are close to losing all of that. And I don't think that it's an exaggeration. I am only 24 and just in my lifetime so many things have happened in this country that are truly troubling. I am an educated voter but what good does it do me?
The America now is not the America that should be.
Just my opinion. 
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Listen if ya want to be scared to death, and really fear for the freedoms that The US is so famous for, take a read through the Patriot Act, and stare in disbelief all the "Rights" that the repubs are stealing quietly from under us. Read it go ahead
No right to unreasonable search and siezure(sp)
no right to privacy
no court orders nessesary to eavesdrop on everything from your phone calls, to e mails to bugs in your home
they no longer have to stand before a magistrate and give good reason........just say its a terrorist investigation and you bagged.
This new director of intelligence they are setting up, WITH budgetary control.......... ok, i'm an alarmist but I think we are creating a position in our country that will have by fat more power then any sitting US President has ever held (lets thank the good people in the gustapo and KGB for the fine example they set for us to follow)
I LOVE this country, I served proudly as a US Marine, but what is going on now, and your average Americans blindness to it just has me scared to shit.
spaz