Is "America" really the land of the free?

Answer 1

To me thats a yes and no question.Also very touchy at the same time.compared to other countries i would say yes,We still have to follow more rules than i will ever be able to understand.Some are just really stupid if i do say so myself.They say we have freedom of speech but that isnt always the case.The right to bare arms,thats not always the case either.So like i said thats a yes and a no question and just depends on what you mean by freedom.

Answer 2

At one time this was the land of the free, but has become the land of many people that can no longer live in the country they were born in. We offer alot more to people of other countries than we do the people born in America. What our young people of America over the years have lost their lifes to keep free is no more. America has become a mixing pot of good and bad. We open our arms to everyone that wants to come to this country with or without ways to support themselfs.The companies that don't want to follow safety ways, and maintain this land go to other countries to do business and then ship it back to America. Look at what is taking place with the items coming in from China, no one says anything until months after, yet something that another country finds to their dislike is no longer allowed for months or years.
We have reach the point that what we called the land of the free will take alot of years to restore.

Answer 3

"Land Of the Free."
I always figured that line in our National Anthem referred to freedom from oppression, essentially England. Thus, we are not oppressed by a foreign government where our rights are dictated by another but internally we are not at all free from oppression by our own government. Some Laws are passed that many of us never agreed to and actions taken on our behalf that we scorn. To understand Americans is to understand 80%. If we can get it right 80% of the time, then we're making progress. I think as long as we retain 80% of our rights offered under the Constitution and get to keep about 80% of our stuff, most Americans will remain oblivious and follow the status Quo. 80% freedom seems enough and allowing the government to control the 20 or so percent seems reasonable. But those freedoms continue to deteriorate and that 79% margin is looming very close. The Tax laws in this country I predict will be the very thing that destroys it. It won't be any forign terrorist group, it will be our own morrons taxing us to revolution. Reform that cancer and freedoms will increase and maybe get closer to what our forefathers intended.
Yet in the broad view of the game...let's just say, we are freer than most.
That 80% figure is a general observation... not based on any study

Answer 4

Can you name a place where people have more freedom, better civil rights, better protection of women and minorities?

Can you name a country that will step in and help another country in need like the good ol US?

Look at the history of the US and how America was founded. America is all about being free from oppressive overpowering government, and the people selecting their own rulers by a democratic process. Here you have both the freedom and the opportunity to pursue your dreams.

Answer 5

What an excellent question! The answer IMHO can be as simple or as complex as you wish it to be. Here are some things to consider. Freedom as intended by our founding fathers is a thing of the distant past and barely outlived the founders themselves. Freedom was supposed to be safeguarded by the “Bill of Rights” which has been under assault since it’s inception.

Today, virtually every article of the Bill of Rights has been overridden by the very people it was drafted to keep in check.

Free speech is diluted by political correctness. Freedom to peacefully assemble requires a permit which can be denied at the pleasure of the issuing municipality. Freedom of religion has become freedom FROM religion.

The inalienable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is supposed to be the definition of “freedom”.

These inalienable rights and the regulation and infringement thereof are the special purview the IRS, BATF, Homeland Security and The Department of the Treasury. Labor unions and the Department of Economic Security have smaller but still significant roles in determining how much liberty or happiness you’re allowed.

The biggest determining factor in your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is Affirmative Action… i.e. discrimination based on race, creed, national origin, handicaps, sex and now sexual preference!

On the other side of the coin; your right to be a high school drop-out father of 11 who can’t work because of a video game addiction is intact and special programs pay for your lack of motivation or concience.

If you choose to be a criminal, we now must be sensitive to your plight. If you choose to live an “alternative lifestyle” you now belong to a protected class. If you’re an unwed mother of 11 and addicted to crack, there are programs for you and all 11 of your children at taxpayer expense.

If you're living on the street and hiding from reality, there are shelters, hot food and councelling available to you, again, at taxpayer expense.

Volumes could be written along these lines, but the short answer is: If you’re extremely wealthy or extremely poor, you’re living in the land of the free. If you’re not in either category, you’re stuck with the bill!!!

Answer 6

"Land of the Free" is a bumper-sticker slogan that has no basis in US constitutional law.

Freedom is the mid-point between slavery and anarchy. The USA has favored Freedom over Law & Order at various times in its history.

Most slogans like "Constitution state" or "Land of Lincoln," have some basis in fact. But it was coined in the age of kings when few people were free. Certainly we are freer than many and not as free as many,

Answer 7

YES! Home of the free and land of the Brave!
There are Americans dieing today to keep our freedom alive.

Answer 8

Many things are free but responsiblity goes with it. Originally you were free to start a new future but also free to fail at it. There was no guarantee of food stamps and other help. You were free to come to this country but free to fail if you don't learn English. Because of taxes nothing is free. Freedom comes at a price.

Answer 9

Mexico is "free", you are free to do anything here that you are in the states, other than guns, no guns allowed here.
Other then that, its about the same.
You buy a drivers license, no test.
you can treat your animals badly, no laws there.
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, that includes being as loud as you want at your neighbors expense.
freedom to possess small quantities of drugs,Gringo's beware of this one.
You need permission to marry a foreigner though.
Every country convinces the populations that they are better off then other people, not necessarily true.

Answer 10

The definition is all relative. Yes, it's free compared to other countries like China and Mexico, but obviously it's not free to live here and there are laws to abide. The Americans and legal residents seem to know this.

However, for the illegal aliens, they take this phrase literally..they really think everything is FREE for all!