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[variableshifter]

i am tired... tired of listening to people talking about how few freedoms we have left

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[the_undertow]

you know i agree with you.

lucky charms. mmmm. i got myself some cinnamon toast crunch.

[syrinis]

if you dont talk about it you might just wake up one morning and see them all gone

[variableshifter]

people have a very skewed view of the idea of rights. rights that you have because your parents happened to be citizens of one country instead of another aren't inherent, and we didn't do a damned thing to deserve them, in most cases. it's the people who have done nothing to deserve such rights (in which i'm not so much saying "people who haven't served their country in some way" as "kids who haven't even held down a real job yet and paid taxes on their income" and most anyone who has more or less ridden their parents to the point that they are now at, which is not wrong but simply means you can't claim to have earned much of anything in this world) but who demand them and constantly talk about how they are losing them because someone in charge is just trying to stay in charge (which is obviously what the people in charge want to do... because those same kids, if they were the rich, would do the same thing... i especially hate the kids of the rich, who will rebel against it until they have to make their own living, at which point they

[variableshifter]

the question, then, becomes "where do you gain those securities, if not from the government?"

[anonymous]

My problem is with those who want rights, but don't want to take the responsibilities that come hand-in-hand with rights, not to mention those who forget everyone has the SAME rights. Often people act without regard to the rights of others. In other words, one's rights shouldn't infringe on those of others. - Di

[scbenji]

I was just listening to Bright Eyes the other day. (Well, several other days.) He very obviously doesn't like this president and doesn't like this war, and for being such a bright young man, his lyric-writing completely breaks down when he gets on these topics. Things like "If you're still free, you'd better start runnin', 'cause we're coming to get you" (not exact quote) and "The approval rating's high, so someone's gonna die." Come on, does he really believe this? Even if he's just being hyperbolic, it's still retarded.

He's only 22, so I'll give him a few years to mature. But his statements make absolutely no sense outside of Michael Moore's mind.

[simplexorganism]

It just frightens me that so many kids out there are willing to believe the political philosophies (or the pseudo-political rantings) of anyone who can rhyme, and count that more highly than they would a calm discussion of the pros and cons of an administration's foreign policy decisions in light of the situations it has been presented with. I'm not here to try to convince people to like Bush, far from it, I just want the people who hate him to do so for a good reason, and not just because it's impossible to be a part of the music industry and not bash him in some way.

Also, damn! You must be bored!

[scbenji]

Why must I be bored?

[simplexorganism]

Did you notice when that post was made? That's an entire journal ago!