"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." ~ John Stuart Mill
20 Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties
"The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the right to privacy, the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience that have occurred since the Obama administration has assumed power. Consider these and then decide if there is any fundamental difference between the Bush presidency and the Obama presidency in the area of domestic civil liberties."
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"Civil liberties" is an oxymoron.
Agricultural city-Statism (Civil-ization) is a deliberate Prison of domesticated plants and domesticated animals, including the human Pleistocene band animal.
Just because you have a plush "private" cell and "Prison Liberties" negotiated with the hierarchical elite wardens, doesn't mean you're anything close to free.
Yet talking about the civi/prison walls, or even suggesting that they're collapsing from rot, really upsets most people in the "liberty" movement. They merely want incremental changes, like prison guards who will treat them with respect, a "privatized" mess hall, "privatized" prison janitors, and private prison cells instead of group dorms.
Libertarian types are mostly in favor of the prison itself. It's their comfort, its the only life they know. They want the walls. It's sort of like Stockholm Syndrome.