When are we going to take our Freedom back from the bu$hkies?

[liberal N proud]

Read this in the Toronto star:

U.S. learns to live with less freedom

MANCHESTER, N.H.—The fierce cultural aversion to the long reach of government is emblazoned on every license plate here, an omnipresent statement that should make Rich Tomasso's job easier.

But even a man who makes it his business to protect individual liberties in a state where no government would dare collect a sales tax or personal income tax — or force a seatbelt around a driver or a helmet on a motorcyclist — has to face some harsh realities in George W. Bush's America.

"People are more afraid of terror than having their privacy violated," says Tomasso, chair of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. "For so long the rhetoric has been about fear, not hope and more traditional American values."

"Live Free or Die" is not just a cheesy license plate slogan in this tiny New England state. But even New Hampshire is not immune to the national erosion of civil liberties that has permeated every part of the United States since terrorists forced their way into airline cockpits almost five years ago, taking away a nation's bravado and replacing it with fear.

The exploitation of that fear by an administration intent on inflating the powers of the presidency, at the expense of a cowed Congress and with the tacit approval of an anxious nation, may be a cautionary tale for Canadians should some of that U.S.-style fear find its way north of the border in the wake of Toronto's recent terrorism arrests.

In recent years, it has become a truism that Americans will trade away some liberties because they have been attacked. Canadians have not.

But where is that rugged U.S. individuality that had helped define this nation?

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[Lerkfish]

1. never. they're gone...bye bye.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. When are you going to take freedom back from the bu$hkies?

Well, Freedom's is on the march, as you know. So it all depends on how many paces to the minutes it's marching; and how many paces to the minute you're going to march.

The ordinary British infantry march at 120 paces to the minute at most, while the Highland Light Infantry, march at 140paces to the minute. On the other hand, if you're going to goose-step, pursuant to the desires of certain losers.... well, that's very slow.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Once a Democrat is President

They will trip over each other in the rush to cut back Executive Power. Now the trick is to get back real elections...