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49% found it favorable
40% unfavorable
11% had no opinion
Originally posted by ChrisCrikey
It's astonishing to me how many people on ATS openly support and advocate political terrorism and violence against elected officials. I really hope you are being monitored by the appropriate law enforcement agencies...thanks for revealing yourselves so openly. You support terrorism and I consider you cowards.
Originally posted by MemoryShock
Just a reminder.
There will be absolutely no tolerance for posts that directly advocate the use of violence.
All such posts will be removed.
Thank you.
When those who represent us fail to represent the wishes of the American people (as all polls indicated a majority did not want the HC bill that was passed), they need to be held accountable for going against the will of the very people they represent.
Fear is a very strong motivator for those in office. Whether it be the fear of not getting re-elected, or the fear of violence, as long as they live in fear every day, they will think twice about each vote they cast on behalf of those who gave them that job in the first place.
WHY is this ridiculous ??? I don't think so !!!
the government is doing it to us !!!
They drew first blood !!!!
I Agree lets rock! I have spent twenty years trying to educate people in hopes to avoid what is coming.
Who exactly is oppressing you? I could give a rat's ass who your insurance company is so long as when you are ill you can be cared for.
If you want to be technical, we are a damn constitutional republic.
By popular usage, however, the word "democracy" come to mean a form of government in which the government derives its power from the people and is accountable to them for the use of that power. In this sense the United States might accurately be called a democracy.
Wrong a democracy is mob rules, the 51% telling the other 49% what they can or cannot do. That is not a government deriving its powers from the people. That is part of the people oppressing the other part.
However, there are examples of "pure democracy" at work in the United States today that would probably trouble the Framers of the Constitution if they were still alive to see them. Many states allow for policy questions to be decided directly by the people by voting on ballot initiatives or referendums.
www.thisnation.com...
Do you have a definition of a "free republic" as my mounds of political theory books tell me there is no such thing.
[edit on 24-3-2010 by searching4truth]
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by hawkiye
Since we're working on generalities then, I guess it's a good thing that we have a Supreme Court and constitutional lawyers that will sort it all out.
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by hawkiye
Since we're working on generalities then, I guess it's a good thing that we have a Supreme Court and constitutional lawyers that will sort it all out.
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by hawkiye
Since we're working on generalities then, I guess it's a good thing that we have a Supreme Court and constitutional lawyers that will sort it all out.
[sarcasm]Don't you get it? They are all in on it too. WE are the only ones that REALLY know the Constitution. WE the internet revolutionaries...and the old ladies at tea parties, Sean Hannity, Rush, and Glenn Beck...WE are the only ones that are TRUE patriots[/sarcasm]
Whew...that was hard to write...I don't know how it comes so easy to some people.
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by hawkiye
You don't have to buy it, pay the fine you have four years to save up 250 dollars or 1% of your income, but be careful because it goes up to 750 or 2.5% of your income in 2016.
Your definition is nearly identical to the definition of a republic, which I am familiar with, thanks. Webster online does not have a def. for a free republic, although ironically they do have one for Banana Republic.
Originally posted by searching4truth
reply to post by brainwrek
The case you cited was overturned.