Nice to see nothing but personal attacks... well I guess when you have nothing of any real value to say I guess attack is all you can do. No wonder things are the way they are.

H4H- No I don't have any balls but why would I need them to speak my mind??

IR- Must be nice to be a middle aged guy in a country run by people just like you. I wonder what that's like. Do I not have a right to live without fear of a paramilitary group besieging my home because I passively resist unjust laws? I guess since they aren't DOD soldiers it's ok? So a "fair trial" is what I have to look forward to huh. Is that why 1% of the US population is in prison, the majority for drug related crimes, with an obscene majority being black? 700,000+ arrests for Cannabis a year more than for all "violent" crimes combined. That sounds like fairness to me. Well at least I have that going for me. I'm a little white girl no threat there. As for the freedoms lost how about freedom to petition for redress of grievances, or peaceably assembling, or habeus corpus, or unreasonable search and seizure, or life without pain and fear? (I know that last bit isn't "guaranteed" but shouldn't I have a right to it anyway?) I'm sure there are more but these are the ones that are important to me. Oh and to your paranoia comment, well it's hard not to be traumatized by all the bullshit the government and it's agencies spew. Especially when you combine it with the indifference of others.

Kush- Even if I left the US and became a citizen of another country the US would still tax me. Therefore I would be forced to subsidize a regime I do not agree with nor wish to participate in. So what do you call that? You don't have to be forced to stay within the borders of a country to be policed by it. It's an illusion of freedom. And yes the US does search out and force expats to pay taxes. Should I have to hide and disappear to be free from them? Oh and in the next few years (if it hasn't happened already) all US passports will contain an RFID tag in them with biometric data. Talk about policing around the world sheesh.

As for the MLK quote- 1st you shouldn't have to go to jail to show the utmost respect for the law. 2nd I would be more than willing to go to jail to arise conscience about these unjust laws but it appears my fellow citizens have none.