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d33p
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Believing that freedom is free is quite naive.
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silversoul7
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2724039 - 05/24/04 05:24 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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d33p said: Believing that freedom is free is quite naive.
Really? I would think that it's just being consistent with the definition of freedom.
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d33p
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Its called context buddy. Sometimes words imply word than their basic definition.
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2724847 - 05/24/04 09:03 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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d33p said: And if you do i hope i see your sorry dragged back to an American prison. Freedom isn't free.
And it doesn't exist at all if I can be forced to give up my most basic rights.
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2724861 - 05/24/04 09:05 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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d33p said: Believing that freedom is free is quite naive.
Freedom isn't free and it does come at the price of having to defend it, but it must be defended voluntarily for it to exist at all.
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2725326 - 05/24/04 10:36 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Freedom isn't free.
Correct, sometimes it costs moving out of a country that attempts to take it away from you .
If you are referring to "American Freedom", you can foot the bill on that one .
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I've been wondering about this "tighter border security" Canada has supposedly signed up for. I would hate to hear of our border guards turning people away because they've been drafted. Or worse, turning them straight over to US authorities. It may be true, though. I've noticed members of my government lately who seem more likely to want to please bush than Cretien ever was
So I decided to look at the possibility of claiming refugee status. I've heard that Canada is pretty big in taking in refugees.
Take a look here
Person in need of protection
A person in need of protection is a person in Canada whose removal to their country of nationality or former habitual residence would subject them to the possibility of torture, risk to life, or risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.
I'm sure you could claim that forced military service would subject you to "the possibility of torture, risk to life, or risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment".
You can make the claim for asylum at any entry point. I'm not sure how this "tighter" border security will affect the process, or if it will, but I think if you made the claim you would be let in at least until you got a hearing.
And for whoever says "freedom isn't free"...
If what you have isn't free...it's not FREEdom.
There's a reason those two words are so close. Don't try and change the definition of freedom to suit what you think you have.
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2726440 - 05/25/04 03:47 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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When exactly was the last time that freedom was defended by America?
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Re: Draft? [Re: d33p]
#2726708 - 05/25/04 07:19 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Freedom is not free. It is very expensive. I must be willing to stand beside somebody and listen to what they have to say, when I have spent a lifetime working against their position. I must be willing to accept that their beliefs are valid, even if they go against every value that I have. I must accept that for me to have freedom to do as I want, I must allow others to have freedom, even when what they do is wrong in my eyes. Free? Hardly.
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Re: Draft? [Re: Seuss]
#2727339 - 05/25/04 11:07 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't think of that as a great price, so I don't think of freedom as anything but free.
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Re: Draft? [Re: Seuss]
#2727747 - 05/25/04 01:03 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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You naturally have to do those things. It costs you nothing, because while you have the freedom to listen to them, you also have the freedom to walk away. Freedom doesn't cost anything, because freedom is choices. The only way freedom can be stopped is by limiting those choices, and that is what costs money and such. Freedom is natural, it's free and the ways our freedoms and choices are violated require maintenance and even more money or they will fall And even if I were to come back to America, I would rather accept the jailtime than the military. There's not much of a difference besides one goes against everything I stand for.
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Re: Draft? [Re: Ravus]
#2727773 - 05/25/04 01:09 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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The cost isn't in listening to them... the cost is swallowing ones pride and allowing them to have an equal stand to say and do as they please.
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Baby_Hitler said: When exactly was the last time that freedom was defended by America?
Your avatar is worship worthy.
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d33p
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Re: Draft? [Re: Crobih]
#2733970 - 05/26/04 08:21 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow an entire conversation solely because of a rainbow 6 commercial.
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