Thread: Are We Incrementally Losing Our Freedom?

but the question is how much time remains before the people fight back and the clock is reset???? looks like its already heading in that direction and ammunition prices have shot through the roof i really hope it doesnt turn south and go down like that

oh, a long while yet, I imagine. I would say the VAST majority of the west does not yet feel so oppressed to really do something about it. The exception, perhaps, being the french who will riot in the streets for just about anything - good on them IMO.

Originally Posted by gregs656

The exception, perhaps, being the french who will riot in the streets for just about anything - good on them IMO.

the advantages of 35hour work week eh

Originally Posted by gugi

the advantages of 35hour work week eh

That and a workforce that is thoroughly unionized. Magistrates will strike because the teachers did, when the teachers struck in support of their fellow French busdrivers, who struck because the trash collectors were being mistreated.

Hard to imagine any such thing happening here.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Originally Posted by Miner123

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

But Franklin was a womanizing, drunken hedonist, who abandoned his wife, leaving her to fend for herself, and cheated on her with horny french women. So who cares what he said.

Originally Posted by honedright

But Franklin was a womanizing, drunken hedonist, who abandoned his wife, leaving her to fend for herself, and cheated on her with horny french women. So who cares what he said.

I don't think he believed in marriage, at least not enough to officiate his relationship with his long-term opposite sex partner. He most certainly wouldn't be a good Christian role-model nowadays, but most biblical figures won't make the cut either in their real-life selves.
In all fairness he was just a postmaster general, Mr. Spitzer should've taken notes on what's a good office to hold.

Originally Posted by honedright

But Franklin was a womanizing, drunken hedonist, who abandoned his wife, leaving her to fend for herself, and cheated on her with horny french women. So who cares what he said.

I'm not idolizing the man, anyone could have said it. I just agree with the idea.

That and long lunches. They're getting quite a bit right.

Originally Posted by gregs656

That and long lunches. They're getting quite a bit right.

Don't forget the afternoon nap. Those are downright therapeutic.

The six-weeks'-paid vacation doesn't exactly suck, either.