When Freedom is Just Another Word

calamity said:

And, so it goes in our upside down universe, where freedom is more and more becoming just another word or nothing left to lose.

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calamity said:

Freedom of Religion means you are free to raise your daughters without education and marry them off to old men at a young age--48 states allow child brides.

Freedom to Bear Arms means you are free to suppress slaves and force those who oppose your Jim Crow up a rope off the branch of the nearest tree.

Freedom of Speech means you can organize your Nazi friends online and convince them to kill Jews and Blacks.

Freedom of Assembly means you and hundreds of those of like mind can carry tiki torches in the dead of night while terrorizing anyone who disagrees with your opinion on Confederate monuments.

Freedom of the press means Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity can spew hate but Jim Acosta cannot ask the president a question.

And, so it goes in our upside down universe, where freedom is more and more becoming just another word or nothing left to lose.

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calamity said:

Freedom of Religion means you are free to raise your daughters without education and marry them off to old men at a young age--48 states allow child brides.

Freedom to Bear Arms means you are free to suppress slaves and force those who oppose your Jim Crow up a rope off the branch of the nearest tree.

Freedom of Speech means you can organize your Nazi friends online and convince them to kill Jews and Blacks.

Freedom of Assembly means you and hundreds of those of like mind can carry tiki torches in the dead of night while terrorizing anyone who disagrees with your opinion on Confederate monuments.

Freedom of the press means Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity can spew hate but Jim Acosta cannot ask the president a question.

And, so it goes in our upside down universe, where freedom is more and more becoming just another word or nothing left to lose.

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Thursday that 39 members of the Unforgiven and United Aryan Brotherhood gangs were charged with various federal firearms and drug violations.

Authorities seized more than 100 illegal firearms, a rocket launcher and several pipe bombs as part of the raid...

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calamity said:

Freedom of Religion means you are free to raise your daughters without education and marry them off to old men at a young age--48 states allow child brides.

Freedom to Bear Arms means you are free to suppress slaves and force those who oppose your Jim Crow up a rope off the branch of the nearest tree.

Freedom of Speech means you can organize your Nazi friends online and convince them to kill Jews and Blacks.

Freedom of Assembly means you and hundreds of those of like mind can carry tiki torches in the dead of night while terrorizing anyone who disagrees with your opinion on Confederate monuments.

Freedom of the press means Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity can spew hate but Jim Acosta cannot ask the president a question.

And, so it goes in our upside down universe, where freedom is more and more becoming just another word or nothing left to lose.

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Felis Leo said:

Freedom is the freedom to choose to sin. Freedom is freedom to choose immorality. Freedom is freedom to do the wrong thing. Freedom means literally nothing if it means "doing what I think is moral and just."

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calamity said:

Authorities find rocket launcher, pipe bombs during raid on Florida white supremacist gangs

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Fox News, which Trump and his surrogates appear on regularly, has been largely supportive of the President's agenda. This is not a surprise since what we consider to be Trumpian politics is in the DNA of the network. A new documentary, "Divide and Conquer" (opening December 7) makes this clear through a disturbing look into Ailes, the entrepreneur who built Fox News.
The director, Alexis Bloom, told me she wanted to make this film because we "live in Roger's world" and need to know more about the "scaffolding of America" from which Trump came.

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