Quote (Santara @ Aug 17 2015 07:32am)
Lol'd! :thumbsup:
We are less free all the time.
We are not free to subsist, thanks Wickard v Filburn.
We are not free to defend ourselves in the same fashion we can expect to oppressed, thanks Firearms Owner's "Protection" Act.
We are not free to maintain a standard of living, thanks fiat money and inflation lies.
We are not free to live in perfectly unblighted housing, thanks Kelo v New London.
We are not free to sell our labor in any manner we deem fit, thanks minimum wage laws and forced unionism.
I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the drift.
Have you read the details of any of the cases you sited?
Wickard v Filburn Over 70 years ago, and falls under congress's power to regulate interstate commerce, something that is super old...Gibbons v Ogden I think...this is just a footnote to a much older law (1824).
Blame Reagan for signing the most substantial gun control bill in American history. You've finally taken him out of your Ava I see. I'm pretty sure this is a ban on machine guns. I'm not being oppressed with machine guns.
And if you're talking about the police, we have access to anything they can legally use, and more. It isn't like you see cops doing patrols with AK-47s but I can have seventeen in my basement and it is no problem. Wolf!
I'm not sure what you're getting on about maintaining a standard of living...standards of living have only been increasing by every measurable trait including access to health care, education, technology, utilities, and so on. We are probably in a golden age. In fact hunger has only been reintroduced to Americans since the freeing of markets during the Reagan administration. Free trade, the right to nullify all other rights and freedoms, especially freedom from want.
Kelo v New London is a bad example because you had somebody buy a property contingent on the promise that it would be developed. When the promise was broken the property was transferred to somebody who actually developed it, rather than let it fester as it was (a demolished hellscape). What a poor choice of examples of how we are less free. We are less free to break agreements and not do things we agreed to? Seem pale in comparison to Grandfather Laws and internment camps.
You aren't free to sell yourself into indentured servitude? Cry me a river
You crave the right to be ruthlessly exploited with nobody to act on your behalf.
Bravely fighting for a world no sane person wants to live in. Lets bring back in paternalism and the Robber Barons, violently suppress women and minority rights, consumer protections, and organized labor.
Good old days.