In My Long Search For Answers as to Why Some Liberals Think Their Rights are Being Lost, I Thnk I Found It. .?

Question

The Dream Police, they live inside of my head
The Dream Police, they come to me in my bed
The Dream Police, are comin to arrest me. . oooh nooooooo
Well I can't tell lies. . cause they're listenin to meee
And when I fall a-sleep. . bet they're spyin on me. . to-night. . to-night
Cause they're waitin for me, they're lookin for me
Ev-ery sin-gle night. . . .
They're dri-vin me in-sane. . .. those men in-side my brain

OK. . . I was havin a little fun at the expense of Liberals, but really man, what rights has anyone lost ??
I don't want to see answers that contain nothing but a bunch of accusations and words strung together.. ..I want documented personal proof of how YOU personally cannot do things that you could do previously . Thank you and enjoy the music !!

CC- I asked for documented personal proof, not just words or letters without explanation .

Anthony - THANK YOU . Now we need to send a memo to all the others who believe this nonsense !!

Dstr - You had plenty of room and opportunity to make a valid point and yet you chose to simply string words and letters together, which amounts to BASELESS RHETORIC . But I do thank you for revealing that you cannot prove your point !!

Cora - That's a pretty good endorsement of the song lyrics that I just posted . I asked for proof. . . .you don't have any . All you have is 'worries', not proof .

Guitarman - LMAO.. So you think that you're more intelligent because you use NAME-CALLING as the basis for a debate ??
Excuse me for awhile folks. . . .I'll be ROFLMAO

Answer 1

I can no longer get away with having a run in my stocking when flying since I have to take off my shoes.

Answer 2

Notice that many "rights" people will claim aren't actually rights such as a bank account or a driver's license. That has never been an intrinsic right in any way. Those are but a few of our privileges. As far as dstr, well he says a lot of things that don't make sense. If they were going to bust online chatters for snarky remarks about the president they would have a hayday on Y!A. If someone got busted they were speaking of actually killing the President. THAT HAS NEVER BEEN A RIGHT! He also quoted Robert Byrd on the subject of rights. That's comedic in that Byrd was an Exhalted Cyclops in the KKK and as late as 2001 used THE dirty N word on a National News program. Nice fake Liberal show, Byrd!

The Patriot Act does not take a single right away from Americans. The only instances mentioned where rights have been even mildly questionable is that of foreign criminals. At that point they are not held to our citizens rights, but the international rights of the Nuremburg Rules which have not been broken. People are so confused on their actual "rights" as most believe it is their god given right to fly on a plane without having their shampoo confiscated. Our society is becoming more and more spoiled and anarchistic because they have never actually felt what it is like to have their rights taken away. People don't even know what their rights are, but the second you try to stop them from doing something, they are sure it is their constitutional right.

Maybe they should all sing along to the Clash; Know your rights...This is a public service announcement...Know your rights...You have the right not to be killed...Murder is a crime!...
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Answer 3

Oh, God. That takes me back. I saw Cheap trick in 1980 or 81.

I'll make a deal with everyone - I've said this many times. If FDR did it in WWII (EXCEPT for the intermnents), it's allowed. If not, not.

We have to allow for the changes in technology, but a part of me is looking for complaints that say "NO OTHER PRESIDENT has done this, even in time of war." I don't see those kind of posts, though.

The advantage of my test is that we all agree BEFORE "showing our cards" - I don't know in detail what was done, but even in law school (yes, I'm a lawyer) they never had any problems with FDR, except, of course, for the internments.

So we have the rule - what FDR did - and let's apply the facts to it.

If Bush has gone beyond that, then the Republicans have to say he's wrong. If he hasn't, the Democrats have to support him.



Why do I think this will never happen?

Answer 4

I am not a liberal but I will give you a personal example or two.


My family moved from Co to IL about 2.5 yrs ago. We were in the middle of buying a house and needed to open a bank account to deposit a check from a personal saving account from a bank in Oregon. We needed to cash the bank draft to pay for the closing cost of our new house. We were told by the bank manager that we couldn't open an account because we could not show her proof that we lived in that state. We had out of state IDs and were staying at an extended stay hotel until we could move into our house that we were trying to buy. She said that we would be welcome to come back and open a account with them once we bought the house and could show proof that we lived there. We told her that we could show her proof that we lived there once we cashed this bank draft to pay for the closing on said house. Round and round we went. We could not open the account because the Patriot act said that terrorist were using the banking system to funnel cash to pay terrorist. That part of the Patriot Act has since them been removed.

Answer 5

Thats what I keep saying. I cant figure out what right anyone has lost at the expense of G. Bush or the war. NONE. Not even with the patriot act. You only lose rights if you did something wrong. Like being a terrorist supporters. I think that if you dont agree with a liberal to them its confused as being a rights loss.

Answer 6

The liberals in this country had control of the congress and the Senate for many years (40) 40-50-60-70s then the (new) republicans took over and the democrats never got used to that idea. Conversely they always feel like they aren't getting their way, even when they are.



New republicans as opposed to the old republicans old republicans were much more libertarian

Answer 7

None loses there rights directly. Its the indirect b*llshit like Gun-free school zones, and CCW's , those take your right to bear arms rights' away. You cant own an assault rifle, thats cause they dont want " we the people " to be able to Revolt against the higher powers again. But oh I'm sorry you wanted to know how liberals' rights are taken away by republicans not the other way. Cant really think of it.

Answer 8

I would say, the lib press has lost the freedom to contact terrorists and other sworn enemies of the US, and promise them to keep their location "confidential" so that they can get the big scoop (putting their own interests ahead of the citizens of their own country).

And lib trial lawyers (like the breck girl) have lost the right to sue the US government for locking up rabid suicide bombers and their instigators, thereby depriving them of the chance to buy bigger mansions, beach houses, private jets, and algores carbon credits to offset it all.

Answer 9

You don't have a Ph.D., silly. (Maybe from the University of Phoenix Online?)
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P.S. In case you never took an elementary rhetoric or logic class, insinuating that liberals are entranced by the "dream police" is equivalent to an ad hominem attack, also closely related to name-calling. Get a life.

Answer 10

Under the Patriot Act libraries become fascist centers of surveillance. The U.S. Department of Justice stated in a document released to Congress that the new powers under the so-called PATRIOT ACT have been exercised in libraries across the nation. In Santa Fe, N.M., a patron accessing a chat room on the library's computer wrote sneering and negative comments about President Bush. The patron was arrested, handcuffed and interrogated about his writings and online usage. (Susan Hildreth, San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2003). Just a few years ago, the Patriotically Correct front of Bush, Cheney, et al, were chastising the government of China for its violations of human rights. Today, we practice the same abhorrence that we then criticized. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's even worse when the absolutely corrupt are allowed to take power.

What do we say to the people, U.S., Iraqi and other, who have died and been maimed unnecessarily as a result of the war on Iraq? What do we say to them after it is revealed that the evidence for war was a fabrication designed to support a political agenda? What do we do when we, as a people, realize that we have been duped by the spinmeistering of Ari Fleischer, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfwowitz, Condoleza Rice, John Aschcroft, Tommy Ridge, and the rest of the assets of evil? I know what I will do. I will take out my copy of the Constitution and flip them the Byrd. I will flip them over to Article II Section 4 of the United Sates Constitution where its states:

Section 4 The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

I will further distribute the following far and wide, and, I will continue to speak our, for not only as Robert Byrd put it, for long as I have two feet to stand on, but as long as I am able to think. A safe harbor is a free harbor. A silenced "sailor in a safe harbor" is neither prudent nor safe. He is, however, missing in action.