Do you think we are losing our freedom bit by bit in the USA?

Question

What do you think of seat belt laws? I just feel like there are way too many laws. Should the goverment be allowed to treat us all like children? I don't know about you, but I don't feel very free sometimes. It seems like the government controls every aspect of our life. Watching police bust down doors of private homes on tv makes me sick to my stomach. It's not much different than a bunch of gangster bustin down the door to rob ya in my opinion. I don't care if they are a bunch friggin dope heads, I say let a guy do whatever he wants in his own house hold. Let us people take care of ourselves, we don't need to pay the governernment huge portions of our income to baby sit all of us. I'm scared of the government, it should be the other way around though. I think maybe they forget sometimes who they work for. Isn't this country suppose to be the model of the free world?

I can't understand how anyone could be okay with seat belt laws? You think it's okay to make us wear belts because it saves lives? That makes no sense to me what so ever. Wearing a bullet proof vest, shoulder pads, knee pads, mouth gaurd, protective eyeware, and living in a bomb shelter 60 ft. underground would also save lives. Are we gonna be okay with it if they made it the law to do all thos things?
Do you think our founding fathers would advocate such a law? I'm not an expert on history, but I think a lot of our founding fathers would be ready to load up their muskets and shoot you down if you tried to enforce such a law upon them. Why should it be the governments role to enforce such laws? I think it would be okay for them to educate people about such things, but not to FORCE them into it. People can do good jobs of taking care of themselves, we don't need this much control over our lives.

Answer 1

Absolutely yes! When he died 40 years ago my ex's grandfather told her father not to grieve for him. He said he was dying a free man. He also said that my father in law would not. When I first heard this nearly 30 years ago I did not understand it totally. Before my father in law died 10 years ago, he too was infuriated with seat belt law. So the question is...why is there so many laws?

The answer to me is quite simple. The more laws you have with penalties attached for non compliance, the easier it is to take control of the people. As we get more and more used to doing what we are told to do, the more we fall into brainwashing and we tend to let our freedom's slip away.

This works for more than just government. There are religions out there that make you attend so many meetings, read scripture every day and even point you in the direction of the political party to support. You repeat so many times that you know this is the true church you are programmed to believe it. You do what your church leaders tell you to without question. All of these things rob you of your freedom.

As for seat belts, studies show that there are nearly as many fatalities caused by wearing a seatbelt as lives are saved by seatbelts. If you get T-boned, you are locked in position with nowhere to go. Seat belt laws especially are meant for mind control.

Are we the land of the free? Hell no! But it is not too late to take back our freedom. It is true that we still live amoung the greatest nations on the earth, but we can do sooooo much better. Here is hoping that we can all die free!

Answer 2

I don't feel like I am losing any freedom. I don't know where you live, but I live in a big, sprawling city in south Texas, and I just don't feel the same constrictions you are feeling. No one has busted down my door (thank goodness, because my house is seriously messy). I'm ok with the seatbelt law, given the statistics. Not to mention the fact that a seatbelt kept me from going through the windshield.

I guess keeping motorists belted in their cars beats the tar out of cleaning your splattered body off the city's streets. It's more of a "keep the city clean" thing. I mean, somebody's got to clean your body soup off the highway.

The problem with friggin dopeheads is that they are too braindead to get a job, so when they need more money to buy their "friggin" dope, they think nothing of stealing for the money and slaughtering whoever gets in their way.

No, this country is not supposed to be the model of a free world. It is supposed to be a model of government for the people, by the people.

Since I'm one of "the people" I purposely exercised my right to vote and have voted for the people who have enacted the laws you hate.

I am 45 years old and have lived in the U.S.A. all my life. I have never had anyone bust down my door. Never had a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. I have had tickets for speeding. But then, I was speeding, so I deserved it. I have had my house vandalized. My father has also had his house vandalized and set on fire.

Freedom doesn't mean absence of responsibility.

Answer 3

The government is not what it appears to be. Behind the facade of Washington, there is a 'secret government' which controls not only the government of the USA, but also Britain, Israel, and many other countries. They can do this because they control the dollar, through their private bank, the Federal Reserve. They also control the education system, the medical system, and most aspects of our lives. Their interest is greed, to gain more money and more power, They do not care about individual freedom. In fact they despise it. You have hit the nail right on the head. Their overall agenda is to reduce freedom until such time as we are all slaves. I think George Orwell's book 1984 is being used as a script. Their intention is to impose a police state. Look out for martial law any time now.

The only way we can do anything about it is to elect new politicians who are opposed to restrictions, definitely opposed to war, and who believe that the best government is the least governmnet. Most of us are old enough and big enough to govern ourselves, and we don't need to be constantly told what to do and what not to do.

Answer 4

Thought I might throw my hat within the ring via announcing, the intent they spend such a lot on beauty surgical procedure is the medical professionals cost manner an excessive amount of, they usually would not want beauty surgical procedure if society wasn't so judgmental on how men and women seem. We as a society have created this obstacle at the side of many others, and whilst you speak approximately how a lot you've got given and boast approximately it, you've got simply acquired your present as Christianity teaches, so no I might no longer comply with to your footsteps, that's sin in line with the Bible. On a fact experience I can inform if the wealthy or good to do helped the deficient and needy, we might all simply be mediocre, and that is identical to communism, whatever I'm to not loopy approximately, however wait you did not say the deficient might have got to paintings we might simply supply it to them and support them out. I believe we already do that, its known as social help and our taxes duvet that price at the side of generating jobs for social employees. So we're already giving to the deficient, we simply aren't boasting approximately the well we're doing. Real charity comes from the guts and isn't measured via the media and what others believe, it's performed in mystery so you don't humiliate the needy or crown the giver.

Answer 5

Wow, what kind of life do you lead that you wouldn't feel free? We've have seat belt laws for decades, so you should have grown a little use it by now. You need to quit watching TV. You are overdosing on drama and it's apparently throwing you into a depression. Hey...I know because I was there. People can do what they want in their own home, but when they are dealing drugs they are affecting the community.
You have no reason to fear the government, I'm telling you, turn off that stupid idiot box and look around you. The world isn't as bad as the TV makes it out to be.

Answer 6

I don't have a problem with seat belt laws. I have had an accident with and without one. Big difference. We will never be totally free, you have to be respectful of people around you. Our society does not encourage it. I feel that I am as free as I can possibly be. Have you visted Cuba or China? After a trip to either of those countries, maybe you will appreciate the freedoms you have.

Answer 7

Stats say seat belts saves lives .busting doors down saves police mans lives, would you still feel that way if you had a family and there was a meth house next door to you and smelled it recognized it only after your children told you about it? You must not not have a job or a spouse because you talk like you don't have rules or regulations cause you see no need. so i am wasting my here trying to help you understand sorry bout that.

Answer 8

Sadly this is how american society evolves.It's the frog in the kettle mentality.If you get loud & boistrous yer classified as a nut-job for making waves. The spin doctors push the herd in the opposite direction by deflection of truth,and character assassination of their opponents.Seatbelts, motorcycle helmets,mandatory auto insurance,anti-smoking policies, etc.,its all gov't intervention.Yes, we're all treated like children now, so much for individuality huh ?
What bothers me are issues like Ruby Ridge, Waco,Iran Contra, and people in gov't ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE who lie to the public, and abuse their priviledge of power.If things don't change,... soon you will have to have mandatory Healthcare.(Mit Romney(sp?)gov of mass(R).has already made such a proposal.)That could get very costly, and everyone else will get rich off of you! Ever since the Nixon administration , there has been a drastic change in american values and policy.

Answer 9

While I do agree with most of what you say here, I don't have a problem with safety laws like seatbelts because they have been proven to save lives, especially children's lives. It also can be justified that head injuries run up medical bills that often are paid by taxpayers.

However, when the government starts butting into personal matters, when they want to write an amendment to deprive a large number of Americans of their rights to marry the person they love, they are so out of line with what our government should be doing, it boggles the mind.

We are the Government! Why did the winner of "American Idol" get more votes than the President of the US did? When did we all give up and stop fighting the oppresive demands they make on us?

Perhaps after we lost the war in Vietnam, when we watched as our best leaders were assasinated, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King and the rest, maybe when we watched LAPD beat a man half to death right on our television screens, when we have so-called news channels that are used simply to promote right wing propaganda like Fox. when we watch helplessly as more of our American military die in a war that was predicated on a lie, we loose heart.

More to the point of your question of our government insinuating themselves into our lives as they have done using the tactics of terrorism to scare us into giving away our rights for the sake of security (lip gloss is dangerous to a plane?) we lose our will to fight it.

The government wants to tell you what to think, who to love, what to eat, smoke, wear and only a few voices in the wilderness like ours speak up to complain, then we are in big trouble.

But we must continue to express ourselves and try to make our fellow Americans listen.

Answer 10

, but often People who come from other places to the "land of the free" are always surprised by the number of laws we have and the number of things that we try to control. It seems inevitable that the longer a government is in existence and the more people there are, the more rules there will be. I suspect that few of us like Big Brother's supervision.