Reading through some of the threads concerning the upcoming election, I can't help but notice that when someone says "Obama will take away your right to (insert Constitutional Right here)", people come back with "Well, after 8 years of the Bush administration where he dismantled all of our rights....".

(those aren't exact quotes, but that's the gist of the conversations....)

I have seen this so much over the threads, it got me thinking. I look back 8 or 10 years and my life seems to be pretty much the same. My family and friend's lives seem the same, as well. I can do all of the same things I did 8-10 years ago now. True, prices may be a bit higher, but my life hasn't changed all that much.

So, with all the talk of "vanishing rights" under the current administration, what rights have you lost?

Not what you perceive that the world or that society or that the American public has lost, but what rights have you lost and how has it effected your day to day life??

I am just wondering, because either I live in a little bubble world all my own or I am missing something that is effecting everyone else.

Remember, this is about YOU.....not society at large. YOU.

If it's about ME then the answer is easy. Aside from taxation (which I've always been pee-o'ed about) my life hasn't been altered at all.

It was altered in 1994 when Clinton signed the AWB into law. Severely so. Right on Obamas website under "crime" it is states that he and Biden wish to reinstate that ban and make it permanent. That effects ME and the possibility of going through that again, permanently even, is enough to drive one to suicide. Not by gun, however. I wouldnt give them the satisfaction.

But that's what has effected ME and what possibly will effect ME so I will now and always cast an anti-AWB vote.

That's just ME.

I wasn't aware the government had to tell me when my rights were abused, according to the Patriot Act they don't have to tell me anything.

[edit on 10-10-2008 by davion]

Far as I know I haven't lost any rights, but then I wouldn't know if the government was illegally listening to my phone conversations, interested in what books I read, or put my name on some watch list. In addition, having not flown anyplace since the 90s, I don't know if my name is on the do not fly list or not.

So its possible I have lost rights, but if so, it hasn't become apparent to me yet.

Apparently, I've lost my right to get a loan for a car/house/luxury item which, by anything resembling logic, I'm grossly under-qualified for.

Originally posted by davion
I wasn't aware the government had to tell me when my rights were abused, according to the Patriot Act they don't have to tell me anything.

[edit on 10-10-2008 by davion]

It's for the good of you and your country citizen. HAH

Rights are protected by laws.

Its all the confused people living under the law that's a problem.

A failure to understand a point of view.

Best not to butt heads though.. like a mechanical engineer talking
to an electrical engineer... that was one tough evening yelling
over the loud music.