Quote Originally Posted by boaz
yeah, i gotta agree, I'm feeling pretty free right now.

Peble, Yes, we do have a sh*tload of laws to reform but we inherited all the tools we need to do it, The Constitution of The United States of America. what more do you want? get to work. :rasta:
the constitution without the bill of rights... is merely a tool to control you. We are not free... not because of the laws and such... we are not free, because the corporations are. They are the reasons for such laws. Pot will never be legal as long as the alcohol industry owns enough senators and congressmen etc etc for many other rules and whatnot. corporations should've never been given individual rights... bc they aren't individuals.

Lets look at what the toilet paper you believe in so much sets up.

Several writers stated it was designed to keep the majority of the population from passing the laws they wanted.... umm... that's what democracy is. Yes there definately should be minority protection... but we should look at the definition of minority... the constitution looks at it as a numbers game rather than a power and money game... hence the corporate/upper class can be considered a "minority." when they in fact have all the power. they didn't care about protecting minority groups of actual people. the founders only wanted to protect their money and property from the masses, and they wanted to take all the money from the masses. by making "big" government the bad guy.

While we gained property rights we'd never be able to fully utilize... we may own some land or a house but not means of production. we lost sustenance rights... the right to food, shelter etc. things that keep you alive... health care for example. here's how we got there:

Constitution sets up Two houses of congress... one is set up to actually represent the population... based on population a state gets so many house members. Yet the more powerful more convoluted Senate was based on an equal number 2... for each state. This would allow states with a small population to enforce their will upon the rest of the nation... if you don't believe that's how it worked... look at Joe LIEberman. and he's not even representing his constituents. The Senate is designed to protect one minority group... those with insane amounts of money. And this is just the legislative branch. the senate also gets to confirm the judicial high kings with life terms of the supreme court ( the very group that gave corporations individual rights) Now whether the founders schemed for it to end up like this is a silly question. I do not believe the forsaw this. They were acting merely in self-interest while they created a monster.

Further weakening the house... is that it's a winner take all system. Rather than European Proportional Representation, we have single-district plurality system. This system is designed to only allow two major parties. whereas the european system allows more. Ours stifles third parties. So the ruling class can control two parties that don't have a need to represent the people... and the individuals in those parties who want to represent the people are either not re-elected, or they end up in the house with little power... or if they make it to the senate, they are filibustered against and all their lil ppl ideas will be watered down by the Senate's process.

So two out of three branches... controlled. Of course the president can cause some problems, but not really, thanks to corporations having individual rights now, which is thanks to the Senate approved Judicial branch. corporations are allowed to by advertising for a candidate without it counting as a donation. soft money it's called.

The only tool we have is our vote. and that tool has been rendered USELESS by the constitution you so proudly say gives us freedom. If this is freedom, i'd hate to see what slavery was.

Government is supposed to be there to protect people... but it is there today to protect corporations and help them exploit us... our tax money is spent on R&D for corporations new products... they don't even have to risk their own capital... that economic system friends, is not capitalism even... it's fascism. Corporatism and Fascism are the same thing... just look at Mussolini's economy... as well as Hitlers... yes Hitler's party was called "socialist" in name, but it merely functiond as a reverse socialist party aka fascism in the economy.

Thankfully we do have the Bill Of Rights... which most founders didn't even want to give us. It was thrown in as a compromise. That does give us what little freedom we have. And that i support. As for the rest of the constitution... i do not.

Our only way to freedom is to take back the government however, not to eliminate it.
SirSmellyEwic Reviewed by SirSmellyEwic on . America is not free. AMERICA IS TO BE FREE! (EVERYONE AGREES EXCEPT TALIBAN, KOREA, A FEW OTHERS, AND THE JOKER,) but how can we be free with millions of laws being shoved down our throat by lady liberty's torch, and uncle sam's finger! FREEDOM: exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc. WHAT THE F@#$! IS OUR DICTIONARY WRONG?!?! OMG AMERICA IS NOT FREE?!? DID WEBSTER MAKE A MISPRINT?! no he did not there are 17 definitions of freedom and not one constitutes that you can have laws and Rating: 5