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(86,005 posts)
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:48 PM Mar 2013

Oh, those young people and their 'romantic attachment to civil rights, civil liberties'

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Oh, those young people and their 'romantic attachment to civil rights, civil liberties' (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2013 OP
?? Fawke Em Mar 2013 #1
I'm 65 and have an attachment to Civil Rights and Liberties. sinkingfeeling Mar 2013 #2
So I have a question for you... Do you feel you have more or less Lionessa Mar 2013 #3
Civil liberties are under assault by the Obama administration woo me with science Mar 2013 #4
kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #5
kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #6
kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #7
 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
3. So I have a question for you... Do you feel you have more or less
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:00 PM
Mar 2013

civil rights now than in your youth? And if I dare ask a couple more... when did they feel the most free, and when the least free, if can recall and care to share, I'd love to read the answer.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
4. Civil liberties are under assault by the Obama administration
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 03:05 PM
Mar 2013
and by both parties in Congress. This is what happens when we allow corporations to purchase government. We allow the construction of a corporate authoritarian state


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