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VIDEO: Supreme Civil Liberties
Posted May 07, 2008 at 9:38 PM

So just what is a civil liberty and why should we care?

 

For my 23rd birthday, my Dad sent me a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In it, he wrote, “To Erica, Wash. D.C. From Dad 5/8/07.” Today, I carry it around in my Street Team backpack. I don’t know, it just feels right. If I’m ever in a bind and need to remind the force that I’m just doing my job, I’ll have backup. That’s right, I have rights.

 

As much as my friends joke with me, we do. We all have rights. And though at times it sounds a little silly (dependent on when you yell out the statement, just ask my colleagues) there is never anything outlandish about the term, “I have my rights.” But today, more than ever, it’s important to realize what those are because they are being chipped away and justified.

 

CHECK OUT MY VIDEO, SUPREME CIVIL LIBERTIES


 
 
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allnaturalhealer 151 days ago
Only tyrants will take our rights away. Doesn't matter the situation. These rights are the only thing that keep us from being slaves. Our constitution was founded under the principal that the individual is as sovereign as the country. This means that each sovereign individual can do what they want, when they want, with no restrictions other than- Preventing another sovereign individual from observing these same freedoms in any form.

 


The tragedy of our kind is that no matter when it happens through history, it always happens the same way. This is why history is the most important subject in school. What the use in adding 1+1 when you only have to do it when your master tells you.


 


Keeping your individual sovereignty restricts all tyrants from easily enslaving you just as Hitler did in Germany.


 


If we don't stand up...Another Holocaust is inevitable. The question is do we want our children to live through this?


 


When are people going to stand up and stop the taking away of their rights?


 


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army: Edward Everett


 


The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. -- Nazi Reich Marshall Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg War Trials


 


This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector: Plato: Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)


 


Peace and Love,


allnaturalhealer