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Politics & Government - 12 August 2006

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Often times we hear that one country is 'freer' than another. I hear that the US is the 'freest' country on Earth.

Isn't saying that you are 'more free' the same as saying you are less enslaved? So you are still enslaved to a certain degree? And isn't saying you are 'freest' akin to saying you are least enslaved?



I would argue that free is qualitative, rather than quantitative. You either ARE, or ARE NOT, free. Merriam Webster contains some definitions of free to include:

not subject to the control or domination of another
not subject to government regulation
not subject to restriction or official control

and refers to a synomym, autonomous which;
stresses independence in matters pertaining to self-government

So are any of us actually 'free', or is our freedom simply a product of our own accepted reality? Reality being nothing more than an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I have never experienced true Liberty or Freedom. Have you?
http://www.free-market.net/resources/introduction.swf

2006-08-12 20:03:36 · 5 answers · asked by libertyhasdied 2 in Other - Politics & Government

consider per capita income, job opportunities,life expectancy, divorce rate, quality of life, inflation ,etc,etc
your options are
1 canada
2 australia
3 norway
4 usa
5 switzerland

2006-08-12 20:01:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Left a message on a friends phone the night before he shot himself. He told his friend that he believed through reliable sources that 9/11 was an inside job. Should that be investigated along with the other claims that have been made? Seems like possible important information, it was no secret that the good doctor had very important connections with the higher ups. And also, isn't it convenient that suddenly the biggest terrosr attack ever was foiled just a couple days after a group of people organized a council to publicly investigate the alleged coverup of 9/11? I hate to sound like a conspracy nut, but the evidence is just too thorough to be coincidence. I am a loyal Bush Republican, but I believe any doubt should be investigated. I mean, I don't want to be duped by the very person I voted for. I've come to be real concerned for our nation lately.

2006-08-12 19:59:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Why don’t we re-create the Berlin wall here in america? Electric fences. Land mines. Guard dogs. Censored machine guns. Hey it would work! lets keep em all out!

2006-08-12 19:58:40 · 13 answers · asked by i ♥ music 2 in Immigration

No offense to the real police officers in here, but I am just curious why cops get called "pigs". I may even want to become a police officer some day.

2006-08-12 19:55:51 · 12 answers · asked by Spikester 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-12 19:47:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

officer asks them do they mind if they search the car and they say yes, why do they say yes??

if they said no they could be on there way , but instead they end up going to jail


how stupid?

2006-08-12 19:47:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

If a cop pulled you over for a ticket or for whatever reason..and I was talking to a friend (that may have his phone tapped) on my cell phone, would my conversation or messaging pick up on the police airwave? What is a police airwave exactly? Anyways..could I have gotten him in trouble? Is that why he may have cut his phone off for awhile?

2006-08-12 19:45:31 · 4 answers · asked by feisty 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Nightly we are seeing harrowing images of dead Lebanese children and civilians massacred by bunker busting bombs, (paid for by our taxes). These deaths are always refered to as 'Colateral damage'. However similar deaths in Israel are referred to as acts of terrorism. Are Lebanese or Iraqi children and civilians worth less than Israeli lives?. According to our Government and media reports it seems so. A case of double standards. Surely all human life is sacred.

2006-08-12 19:43:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-12 19:42:31 · 23 answers · asked by kodin 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Why The USA Started a war against iraq claiming that they are preparing For Having nucluer Power Tocreat Wepon

While Isreal had a nucluer Bombs.

Why Isreal Should be the only Country That maintain necluer Power among the middeleast against the UN polices ?

Why the Un Disregard That And Just not even Convecting the Mass killing for children Like the one recently in Kana

2006-08-12 19:40:38 · 12 answers · asked by thunder 2 in Politics

2006-08-12 19:30:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

unfound collage students don't make it to Floroida and end up in places there not supposed to be? This is why Muslumems and all of you who should be kept in your own country should not be alloweled in at all. does anyone agree or am I and God alone?

2006-08-12 19:28:45 · 1 answers · asked by spacecadet 2 in Other - Politics & Government

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RACIST TO MEXICANS. WE ARE NOT THE ONLY IMMIGRANTS HERE?

2006-08-12 19:23:51 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

why? did it fix the problem?

2006-08-12 19:23:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-08-12 19:23:18 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

im guilty

2006-08-12 19:14:46 · 26 answers · asked by STEVE0 THE CLOWN 3 in Law & Ethics

Bombay chain blasts are carried out by terror group trained by Sescret servise funded by Pakistan.USA know this very well.

2006-08-12 19:14:01 · 14 answers · asked by malcom 3 in Politics

Is it for commemorative purposes or some other reason. Is there a method to the madness!

2006-08-12 19:14:00 · 6 answers · asked by gunslinger08 1 in Other - Politics & Government

i mean can the DV center understand this problem , is thire any option the US GOVERMANT look this situation as exptional and help the dv winner like me i am from eritrea

2006-08-12 19:12:59 · 7 answers · asked by daniel 2 1 in Immigration

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