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Prohibition creates, sustains and handsomely rewards the illegal drug industry while pretending to fight that very same industry.
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Private companies are getting rich examining your private information for the government. Here's who they are.
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Originally posted by Bilk22
reply to post by FyreByrd
Well that wasn't my experience today when posting on FB. Seems he's perfectly fine with the spying this admin does vs that of the prior. Funny thing is he uses the same arguments Bush supporters used when that admin was doing it.
Everyone is blinded by party affiliation. No one looks for alternative views or news sources. They get their news from the media sources that agree with their political bent. Most people are fools and are willingly giving up their rights and freedoms so many gave their life to protect, just because it's too much work to actually do something about it or because they're blinded by party lines.
Originally posted by FyreByrd
I sometimes think that many people think that when a person sefl-identifies as a progressive/liberal/democrat that they worship President Obama and his administration. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Originally posted by TrueBrit
reply to post by SirMike
The reason everyone wants to be a slave, as you put it, is that next to no person on this planet has ever tasted life outside of one form of slavery or another. Oh sure, there are no welts on our backs from the lash of the whip, but there are marks on our minds, on our hearts from the measures which replaced them. The mark of an advanced society is not a lack of oppression, but how well it is hidden.