But They’ll Never Take - Our Freedom!!! (As long as you have nothing to hide.)

[20score]

And the definition of freedom is tweaked.
And we don’t mind having our every move watched and tracked.
And we’re fine with the elimination of privacy.
And the left and the right agree to having some of the trappings of authoritarianism.
And we promise to keep paying more attention to reality shows than reality.
And we don’t have any objections to having all of our written and phone conversations recorded.
And we accept having security guards look at us naked in order to travel on any type of mass transit.
And we’re happy to let companies and the government track everything we read, buy or watch on video.
And we’re willing to self-censor our speech as to not offend someone in the government.
And we completely trust our government at all times to never misuse any information collected about any of us, no matter who is in charge.
And we’re willing to give up any future right to petition the government or peaceably assemble, anonymously.
And we’re cool with making the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth amendments as irrelevant as the third.

Okay, never mind. They can take our freedom. We’ll gladly give them that.
But, They’ll Never Take Our False Sense of Security, Our Hypocrisy, or Our Fear!!! (Those are ours to keep.)
Okay then… Hope you’re inspired.

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[suede1]

1. I am inspired!

Yea apathy!

[20score]

27. Yes, apathy!

[Autumn]

2. Nope. I'm not inspired. In fact, I have been uninspired for

some time now. Don't see much about our current political scene to be inspiring.

[Auntie Bush]

16. Then how about a Republican scene?

Would that be more inspiring?

[Autumn]

18. Nope. and that silly little canard doesn't work.

If that's all you got you really need to get something better. This crap in the article is happening and Democrats are going right along with it.

[punkin87]

21. That is a shame too.

[Autumn]

22. Yes it is a shame.

Welcome to DU

[punkin87]

23. Thank you!

[punkin87]

3. This is great!

Love it. Can I post it on face book?

[20score]

4. Please do. Glad you like it.

Thought it was going to go over well on DU.


Proud of this one and ashamed at so many people in the country willing to give up all privacy. Makes me ill.

[punkin87]

11. Me too.

[WillyT]

5. Yep... It's "WE THE SHEEPLE" Now...

Sigh...

Thank you for the reminder.

[20score]

6. Thank you.

Thought this post may piss off a few of the people here that it obviously applies to, but I also thought it would be very well received by the rest. (It was by the people I read it to before posting.)

Regardless, I needed to say it.

Have a great weekend, Willy!

[MindPilot]

7. K & R -- Nicely done!

I'm a big fan of anything that pisses off the authoritarians.

[20score]

8. Thanks much!

(Of course they never admit to being authoritarians, but they are. Some of the comments I saw on another thread would make any thinking person sick.)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Lately the cops act like there is a curfew...

You have to have a good reason to be out of your home.

[99Forever]

10. "First they came for the..."

Well, you know the rest.

Land of the Free?

What a really bad fucking joke.

[20score]

19. Exactly.

[Populist_Prole]

12. Love your list. Right wingers love law and order unless it's inconvenient to them

They want to lock up the whole world in sheriff Joe Arpaio prisons; But bleat about the tyranny of big brother if they get a traffic ticket or civil fine.

They beat their chests about being rough & ready "rugged individualists" in the home of the brave; But are paranoid gun nuts living in gated communities.

[20score]

15. Thank you!

[840high]

13. kick

[damnedifIknow]

14. You nailed it

"That there needs to be debate over having a warrant standard shows how much law enforcement has claimed the power to violate privacy in the name of fighting crime.

What people want is privacy law which makes it impermissible and unlawful to engage in surveillance that chills a citizen’s right to associate with individuals or engage in political activities, etc. They want COINTELPRO measures to be clearly out of bounds, regardless of whether law enforcement agents may still engage in such conduct outside the law. They do not want to live in a world where they are under total surveillance, and, if they are, they want to be able to challenge government when their due process rights are being violated."

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/03/20/the-push-to-end-warrantless-intrusions-on-digital-communications/

[20score]

17. Thanks!

[suede1]

20. Kick

[20score]

24. This was triggered by what the mayor of NY said..

[AzDar]

25. K & R

[MotherPetrie]

26. (But only when a DEM sits in the White House!!!)