Please refrain from speaking against it until you understand it sufficiently well enough to have a fully-informed opinion...
So you get to speak and I do not that is rich coming from someone touting liberty.
Isn't the whole point of freedom of speech is to allow dissenting opinions so that people can re-examine their beliefs... really funny!!!
I really do not get it ... this has been going on since 9/11, if not before, and now everyone is outraged about their liberties.
So where was everyone after 9/11 what happened to all those truthers... you know what they gave up because no cares.
The only real liberty now is living off the grid. Other than that you are dependent on the system.
Narrow the discussion what liberties are you referring to? .... rhetorical question .....I am not engaging this conversation further.
You are free to start a militia and be ready ... so far no one was stopping you.
The 'it' that I was referring to (in the first quote above) was specifically in regard to the concerns that some folks have expressed about loosing liberty, etc.
I was saying that their concerns are very legitimate and that you should not dismiss them as some kind of selfish 'nut' (who simply doesn't care if people live or die) until you have had sufficient opportunity to understand their perspective.
I was not making any remark or suggestion to the effect that you should not be allowed to give your opinion just like everyone else. (Far from it.)
I am not against you.
Please don't ever think it.
Instead, when you read my posts, try to see us sitting somewhere quietly drinking our coffee or tea together and "just talking"...
Imagine that -- I am
not angry -
not yelling or screaming,
not trying to back you into a corner,
not putting my finger in your face,
not doing
anything but sitting peacefully sipping my coffee/tea and "just talking"...
Some folks are "outraged about their liberties" (as you put it) because they have watched and seen everyone's liberties being trampled on and taken away - little by little - and sometimes a lot - "right before their very eyes" - and feel as if they are not able to do much of anything about it. And, they certainly don't want to see what is left disappear too quickly. (Or, at all, preferably.)
You sound as if you are ready to give up.
(Everyone - please understand the context.)
Please don't give up.
Living off the grid is good for the meantime; but,
soon enough,
it will not be sufficient for 'real liberty'.
Starting a militia is not the solution I have in mind.