So america, does freedom really exist?

You are right, as every year passes people are giving up miniscule amounts of their individual rights and freedoms. The government does it in tinly little baby steps always with the idea that "it is in our best interest" for the "greater good" of society. We willingly exchange freedoms for the calming security of velvety bondage.

Benjamin Franklin warned that Americans would slowly soften and give in to the temptations, we are discussing. Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." "In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war* and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable.

When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms*, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny. If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" P.S.: The Government did, in fact, create the internet.

Just for the record, sorry. RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency in 1962), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract to BBN.

BBN had selected a Honeywell minicomputer as the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed in 1969, linking four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. The network was wired together via 50 Kbps circuits.

Nobody is going to tax breathing. I wouldn't count on cap and trade getting any traction. We are as free as we have ever been, with a few notable exceptions that were inflicted by a certain administration that wasn't Obama's.

"Can I smoke in my own business? Can I smoke in any public place? Can I drive a car that does not pass emissions tests?"

These laws support my right too BREATH CLEAN AIR. They ENHANCE FREEDOM. This right is far more important than your "right" to pollute it.

"Can I grow my own food and sell what I do not need?" Sure you can. I know people who do it.

"Next year will I be able to by incandesent light bulds?" There is no such thing as a "right" to incandescent light bulbs. Feel free to stock up now and use them for the rest of your life.

"Can I buy a high volume flush toilet?" You don't have a "right" to waste water. Utilities belong to the public.

It's not your water. It belongs to everybody. _______________________________ Re:"Benjamin Franklin warned that Americans would slowly soften and give in to the temptations, we are discussing."

Right, like the "temptation" to breath clean air.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.