Why do Liberals have the Delusion of Losing their Rights?

Question

They whine about freedom- they deny freedom- Try joining being a professor and putting a Bush poster on your office wall. Try getting hired in a science dept and not believe in global warming. Tell your class you do not believe in evolution, but creation.
You have free speech- you deny it to others. Ann Coulter cannot walk a campus without an army of security. Oberman would just get greeted on any campus.
You complain about a cross- the cross is removed- You have more power than you ever had- Sooo why are you crying??????????????????????

lltrix- hello- I teach college

Amazing that Abdul Ha…et al, claim to know, w/o doubt, the truth and what ideas can be spoken, and what ideas are forbidden. Afraid of debate it seems.

Answer 1

Good points.

It is clear they don't know history. Democrat FDR took away more rights that Bush ever did. And Bill Clinton secretly authorized no warrant spying in the 1990's.

Answer 2

i do no longer think of this seems very knowledgeable because of the fact for one international Warming is not any delusion. in case you google-earth the polar Ice Caps, they have receeded alot in the previous years. And the ingredient is it relies upon on what area of the line and how some distance democratic or republican you're. i'm customarily a reasonable or autonomous democrat myself, yet I come from an exceedingly liberal state and it does not seem to me like liberals are loosing rights. each and every person is loosing rights the the perfect option to loose speach, very own supplies, to privateness all of this have been violated by government officers and supposid structures around the rustic. as an occasion no employer has the the perfect option to tell somebody what to positioned on, it extremely is unlawful. So why does it take place? One occasion is in colleges, colleges arise with dresscodes and say that folk can no longer say particular issues on their shirts and on their very own supplies mutually as at school. nevertheless, colleges have not have been given any precise to tell one that they can't positioned on some thing no remember if it extremely is a political fact. One individual in Vermont one their regulation suite because of the fact their college mentioned they could no longer positioned on a shirt that featured George W. Bush's face and trademarks of medicine that infered to Bush's drug appropriate previous. This regulation suite went all the thank you to the state ultimate courtroom and the pupil is aloud to positioned on the shirt.

Answer 3

They make the mistake of thinking they have any rights . Absolutely no right exists to free speech .Only approved speech is allowed and requires a permit for public speaking in many places .
You may not even publish whatever you want . Everything must meet with the laws surrounding what free speech really is .
Free speech is the opportunity to disagree with the government in written or spoken word or with images as long as it does not violate the law . This is not Carte Blanche to print or do whatever you want and display it or speak it in public or even sell it to those wishing to purchase your speech , pictures, or writing .
There are limits and this means that freedom of speech is just one of those things people believe they have .
SO this is the reason because people did not learn anything in school or college for that matter about free speech or should I say control speech .
People are much happier thinking they have it rather then not .

Most people believe that we have all sorts of rights and with habius out the window we actually have none .
So get use to it and buck up its only bad for you if you do not go to church and work on a regular bases . If you do not break the law and you remember to mind your own business everything will be fine . .

Answer 4

Crying? Your the whiner here pal. I don't why cons like you, have this ill-conceived perception that any thinking on an issue that doesn't walk lock step with the rational of Bush, Cheney, Rove, your own grand delusion based on what they told you, what some biased radio-host professes or the propaganda driven FoxNews Broadcast reports to you is LIBERAL.

You know, there is such a thing as a Mainstream point of view. You may want to label some opinons as liberal, you do so at your own expense because it IS ACTUALLY MAINSTREAM AND LIBERAL AT THE SAME TIME--Imagine that.

You want to place points of view into some kind of political stance---that is naive and self-serving at best. You gotta know that there is a self fulfilling prophecy mechanism working against your better interests. If you don't, then why not investigate what's represented to you instead of calling like it is based on your own Pre-concevied bias?

People that have no clue to the merits of a humanitarian education are blinded by their own ignorance. If you can't accept the information provided by others then your just part of the problem.

Answer 5

First, I doubt there is a single professor anywhere in the world who does not "believe" in global warming. It is fact.

Ditto evolution.

As for mAnn Coulter - she is entitled to all the free speech in the world. It is because of what she SAYS that she needs security. She intentionally inflames people by saying outrageous things that nobody in their right mind believes.

With freedom comes responsibility.

Answer 6

I am a conservative. Now get a proctologist to find your head, and compare the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act with the Constitution. Our freedoms ARE being stripped away.

Of course if you're a mindless Bushbot you don't have to worry. The point is, you shouldn't HAVE to worry at all!

Answer 7

Not to mention they deny people the rights to say God in schools. They are also too lazy to pick up a remote control to change the channel when they hear the word God in a TV show. They just cry to their ACLU until they get the program canceled.

Answer 8

because they understnd that taking away rights is what an evil dictator does.

Ann Coulter can say what she wants but she agrees with bush that our rights shoudl be taken away, so that makes her the one who doesn't believe in freedom. Newt gingrich said recently that we should ban the N word. does banning words soundf like freedom to you? it is the neo-conservatives who take rights away, not liberals. i am not even a liberal, i am a libertarian. although, there are those like clinton who think we have too many rights, too. so those kind of liberals are just as bad.


mefeelgood - "Lieberals are the new fascists." so the one who is fascist is the one who doesn't want rights taken away? think about that. you brainwashed fool.




Just because you haven't notice the loss of your civil liberties doesn't mean it hasn't happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

It's not a delusion. Right wing fanatics like Bush and Cheney hate our freedoms and keep attacking our freedoms.

Michael G. Kane: Your rights are under a cloud

Michael G. Kane
President and publisher

Sometimes the best dreams come during troubling times.

As our "Sunshine Week" efforts conclude, let me admit I'm greatly troubled. You should be, too.

We should be troubled about increased government secrecy in all of its forms. From confidential record-keeping, lack of public access, closed meetings, employee gag orders, lack of Freedom of Information Act compliance and clandestine pursuits of personal information in the name of security, government officials at all levels are emboldened to keep the people's business private.

What we don't know is certainly on the rise.

It infuriates me that two San Francisco Chronicle reporters were threatened with jail after revealing truths behind steroid abuse in professional baseball.

Their reporting earned high public praise from President Bush but subpoenas from the Justice Department. Why?

The reporters refused to reveal their sources, and no federal law protects that privilege. Thirty-one states do, including New York, however.

It concerns me that a blogger/freelance videographer in California has been sitting in jail for six months after refusing to hand over his videotape of a violent street protest to federal prosecutors, who had taken responsibility for the case away from the state.

It chills me that journalists comprised 10 of the 19 witnesses in the recently completed federal jury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, all but one testifying about past "confidential" interviews with government sources.

Apparently nothing is private or confidential anymore unless the government says so.

Local governments do not always take the high road. Monroe County continues to hide behind its lawyers to release Freedom of Information law-requested documents in a timely manner, if it does so at all.

The Rochester school board, as does nearly every school board, will conduct its superintendent search in private. The Monroe County Water Authority and other authorities are havens for personal benefit.

Why bother with taxpayers, laws or common decency when it doesn't serve an official purpose? Worse than arrogant, it's just wrong.

None of this bodes well for how the public is served. Looking ahead, ignorance and apathy might exacerbate the problem.

A 2006 study by the Nashville-based First Amendment Center indicates nearly one in five Americans believe "the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees."

The number is much higher (35 percent) among high school students, according to a Knight Foundation study. That same survey revealed that only 54 percent of students believe that newspapers should be allowed to go to print without prior approval from the government. This is scary.

Appreciation for the First Amendment must be holistic, which is why the need for broad understanding of its applications is so important.

If the community concerns of "we" are buried under the self-interest called "me," our collective voice is dead.

Yet few people seem to care.

History demands we wake up soon.

Faced with their own troubles and keen reminders of what overbearing government means to a citizenry, a group of visionaries leading a fledging country 216 years ago understood well the correlation between our government, our laws and our way of life.

They drafted the most powerful 45 words in the Bill of Rights.

The First Amendment.

In securing and protecting five fundamental freedoms for all of us — religion, speech, assembly, press and petition — these leaders of yore created a dream.

In more contemporary times, it will take an equally determined group of citizens to preserve it.

You and I.

Kane is president and publisher of the Democrat and Chronicle.

Answer 10

President considers the Constitution as a GD piece of paper rather than the supereme law of the land.

Patriot Act.

Tapping phones without notifying a court. Admitted to tapping even in cases where there was no suspicion of terrorism.

These are a few of the reasons.