It should mean Thank God I'm Free. Let's face it; there isn't one high and mighty schmuck born in this country that has an iota of what it's like to live in a repressed country. And it may not be much longer that anyone can say that.
The recent sting that captured the six men who were going to storm Fort Dix in New Jersey and kill as many of our fighting men as possible makes me wonder. The weeks after 9/11 brought on a paranoia that threatened the lives or at best, the health of anyone who looked like an Arab. Forget the fact that they were born in this country and so were their parents.
Everyone here should thank God we have organizations like the ACLU. They'll never allow the wholesale roundup of possible insurgents like happened to the Japanese/Americans during the second World War.
I agree in part with the tenets of the NRA. Every man or woman should be allowed to own a pistol or a shotgun if they wish but no one in their right mind should be allowed to own an assault weapon; collector or not. This is where the NRA needs to bend. Assault weapons should be banned 100%.
George Orwell's book, 1984, reflected a world where everyone was watched and had no privacy. A world where wrongdoers were severely punished. Judge Dredd came from a world where wrongdoers were judged and condemned instantly by judges on motorcycles. No lawyers allowed.
Are we headed this way? Seems unlikely to me. But there is always the threat of Star Chamber justice by law enforcers who are just fed up with the criminal element perverting the law to give them an unjust advantage.
Think about it!
T.G.I.F. and thank God I live in a free country.
The recent sting that captured the six men who were going to storm Fort Dix in New Jersey and kill as many of our fighting men as possible makes me wonder. The weeks after 9/11 brought on a paranoia that threatened the lives or at best, the health of anyone who looked like an Arab. Forget the fact that they were born in this country and so were their parents.
Everyone here should thank God we have organizations like the ACLU. They'll never allow the wholesale roundup of possible insurgents like happened to the Japanese/Americans during the second World War.
I agree in part with the tenets of the NRA. Every man or woman should be allowed to own a pistol or a shotgun if they wish but no one in their right mind should be allowed to own an assault weapon; collector or not. This is where the NRA needs to bend. Assault weapons should be banned 100%.
George Orwell's book, 1984, reflected a world where everyone was watched and had no privacy. A world where wrongdoers were severely punished. Judge Dredd came from a world where wrongdoers were judged and condemned instantly by judges on motorcycles. No lawyers allowed.
Are we headed this way? Seems unlikely to me. But there is always the threat of Star Chamber justice by law enforcers who are just fed up with the criminal element perverting the law to give them an unjust advantage.
Think about it!
T.G.I.F. and thank God I live in a free country.
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