We must maintain our freedom

[diceisgod]

There is no freedom to maintain. Unless you're rich, you are a coporate slave. Freedom is an ideal not reality. This country is probably as close to that ideal as any other nation. In other countries they put a gun to your head and tell you "do this" or I'll kill you. They cut to the chase. Here it's "do this" (work) or you can't afford to eat and survive. Democracy is dictatorship with a bunch of bells and whistles. This is not a bad thing, don't get me wrong. People in general are imbeciles. Until people can look within themselves to maintain order in society instead of relying on governemental agencies there will be no freedom.