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Oh, those young people and their 'romantic attachment to civil rights, civil liberties' (Original Post)
bigtree
Mar 2013
OP
What the hell...?
sinkingfeeling
(51,477 posts)2. I'm 65 and have an attachment to Civil Rights and Liberties.
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)3. So I have a question for you... Do you feel you have more or less
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
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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