Friday, January 11, 2008

Freeworthy

  • If you can criticize your government...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can remove public officials when they misbehave...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you are considered innocent until proven guilty...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you have a right to be tried by a jury of your peers...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can do whatever you want with your body - take drugs, get tattoos, abort fetuses, commit suicide...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you have a say in what laws are passed and taxes collected...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can worship whatever god you like, or none at all...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can have consensual sex with and marry any other adult...
...you might live in a free country
  • If your government makes laws and fights wars only to aid and protect its citizens...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can publicly mutilate or destroy your own property - flags, crosses, books, pictures...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can travel throughout the land without showing "papers"...
...you might live in a free country
  • If you can post this on your website without going to jail...
...you might live in a free country

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We might still live in a free country, or the place we live might still be [somewhat] free.

The government exists by the consent of the governed; most citizens offer that tacit consent by voting (or choosing not to vote) and by their docile acceptance of the perfidy of the politicians.

Maybe Mr. Jefferson was right about the Tree of Liberty.

-dm

The_Scum said...

Is "Kinda sorta almost maybe free" so bad?


Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

-Hunter S. Thompson


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That, and the occasional ranting about nothing in particular.