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Subject SHOCKING REVELATION OF RAPID DISINTEGRATION OF FREEDOM IN THE USA (please read for you own good!)

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Excellent writing, and wise from age an experience. I was only born in the 70's but things I remember from childhood, things that are simply never-seen-again these days, help me understand your point.

Our family would drive to any beach in our area (So Cal) , with a truck bed full of wood, food, liquor, games for us kids. Whenever the feeling came, we'd get the wood started and get a nice big fire going. The adults drinking, us screaming at each other, wrestling and playing games.. It was freedom.

Now there aren't even fires allowed on any but 1 beach in the city (and then only in pre-made pits). Alchohol is banned on many beaches. My mom used to enjoy smoking at parties and I remember TE smile on her face. Smoking is banned now too.

We'd somethimes ride, my brother and I, in the flat bed of that old Ford truck. Just sitting back there, with the wind blowing all around. It was exhilirating. Dangerous? I guess, sure. But when there is freedom, there is personal accountability. Our choice, Our life. Now there's just laws, laws, more laws..
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One of the memories that stands out in my mind as a 12 year old child was riding my snowmobile down the side of the road and having the state policeman stop ahead of me as I drove up. I felt no fear, I knew him and he was friend to all of us kids, he just wanted to look at my new sled I'd gotten for Christmas and shoot the breeze. He used to stop when we were playing hockey on the pond and eat his lunch watching us play.  After we got done talking he said "be careful of them guy wires on the telephone poles, they're hard to see sometimes', and he drove off.

Now I am 52 years old and the last time I rode a snowmobile down the side of the road I was almost shot by an asshole cop who drew his weapon on me because I put my gloves in my pocket after he told me to keep my hands where he could see them and I didn't hear him because I had earplugs in. He impounded my machine and gave me seven (7) tickets. It ended up costing me almost 800 dollars all told.

I also remember riding in the back if the pickup, a hell of alot fun. We would put the tailgate down and ride on it holding on to the straps that held it up. if a parent did that these days the CPS would kidnap their child under the pretext of reckless negligence and cell them to a pervert.

it isn't about protecting them from harm, that is a false pretext for uninhibited access to and control over our children.

As most people realize, almost everything physical that is a lot of fun has an element of danger, such as skateboarding, biking, hunting ,fishing in boat , climbing a mountain, or skiing, and sooner or later even these activities will be considered reckless negligence. The question is, whose decision is to make, the government or the parent? To me the answer is obvious, and the reason for accusing parents is obviously not to protect the child and if you doubt what I hsve said do some research into the statistics of children placed in state care. They are so outrageous it is incredible there is not a public outcry. 20 times as like to be sexually abused, 40 times as likely to commit suicide, 10 times as likely to DIE..

The key word here is RESPONSIBILITY, if the parents riding the children the back of truck exercise it and the child is taught it, accidents are unlikely, in fact i don't remember ever hearing of any kid falling out of the back of truck and ever kid I knew did this same thing, every single one..

By the time I was 13 i was driving a 200hp farm tractor using all kinds of farm equipment and driving tandem hay wagons down public streets and across bridges. it might or might not have been technically illegal, i never knew because all the policeman ever did was wave when he saw me.

That is a key element of freedom BTW, choosing what you feel is right for your own offspring, weighing the benefits against the risks and making up your own mind about it.
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Original Message This is simply a recollection of the not so distant past so readers can judge just how much freedom we have lost, and how fast we lost it, and how the basic nature of our government has shifted radically to tyranny.

The story I have to relate was about back in the 70's when the government was afraid of the people.

This was the time of such anti government sentiment that songs like "Convoy" ( I know it was corny but it was about open rebellion against the police) and movies like Smokey and the Bandit.

The days of citizens taking action with CB radios to give the location of every cop on the road, seldom did they escape detection, and statistics indicated that drivers who had CB radios had significant fewer accidents, surprise sunrise!
These were days without a care or worry as I recall them as young adult/teenager, a very relaxed time where our biggest worry was expensive gas and heating oil due to the arab oil embargo.

I was on the school rifle team and brought my target rifle to school and kept in my locker on Tuesdays and Thursdays when we had practice on the range, which was located on school premises under the basketball court in the basement.

I also frequently brought my hunting rifles for the purposes of sighting them in on the range especially bore sighting since I was bad about knocking my scopes of sight and had not yet perfected the technique and my instructor/coach was a very good marksman.

I brought my firearms on the school bus in a hard case, sometimes a soft case , and I showed them to my friends and allowed them to hold them and examine them, all without raising an eyebrow from the bus driver.

Since I was a large individual, the bus driver would often seat "problem children" with me to keep them from disrupting or distracting her. I was once given responsibility for a little boy with a condition that caused him to have violent seizures, a very intelligent little tike that was picked on because he had to wear a hockey helmet to protect his head from injury during a seizure.

His parents thanked me with a very nice gift for Christmas for keeping the bullies from bothering him, it was a sled designed to pull behind a snowmobile and I returned the favor by taking the little boy for rides after strapping him in with a three point seat belt. Ice fishing and fishing the river behind my house with my instruction seem to be very good for him and he never had a seizure when having fum. His seizures improved, it seemed the bullying brought them on made them worst.

The point of all of this is simple, we were given responsibility, and we acted responsibly.
We weren't put on psychotropics or Ritalin for having a personality or thinking independently or acting like a normal child, , AND NOT A SINGLE ONE IF US EVER OPENED FIRE ON OUR CLASS MATES, DESPITE THE FACT THAT FIST FIGHTS WERE VERY COMMON, USUALLY OVER GIRLS or the bullying of younger acquaintance or brother..

I had my share and I was only suspended once, when I busted open my opponents lip so bad he had to have 8 stitches and his parents raised a stink over the doctor bill. Usually the coach would allow a fist fight to continue until one opponent got the best of the other and then broke up the fight, and this was often where fights were held because students knew the coach would not turn the combatants into to the principal. In this way conflicts were solved permanently with a clear victor..

To continue my recollection of freedom...There was a drive through liquor store where you could buy a handgun, ammunition, a bottle of whiskey and mixed drink, all from the comfort of the front seat of your car at a drive up window without ever stepping put of the car.

They even had a 30 second add on TEE VEE, it was called the Stop and Go Gun and Liquor Store and had a picture of a semi auto handgun and a bottle with XXX on the sign.
The store was an offshoot of a local convenience store owned by rich and influential local Houstonian called Stop-n-Go.

It was actually kind of humorous when we talked about it, we always laughed out loud when the commercial came on because of the theme song which unfortunately I cannot remember the words to. I was thinking perhaps it was just bit too much freedom for some people, AND NO, I'm not making it up. TEXAS WAS AT ONE TIME A VERY FREE STATE AND POLICE LEFT YOU ALONE.
Of course in those days you could take a toke off of a bong in front of a cop and he would look the other way. We had a totally different mindset about freedom then, if you weren't bothering anybody you were left alone and grand juries and persecutors wouldn't dare pull the shit they do now, prosecuting people who they know had done no wrong to anyone. That is not law and order, it is generating revenue and destroying freedom and these bastards need to hang from the rope of justice strung from the tree of liberty. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!.

BTW if you don't believe me , This store was in Pasadena Texas about 500 yards from my apartment on the north part of town near the 610 500 loop. We called the 610 loop that that because it was a loop around Houston with banked curves just like a NASCAR track. People going over 100 MPH in the fast lane was the norm and cops didn't dare stop speeders for fear they would be run over or cause pile ups. Seriously.

At the time Texas had no open container laws and no background checks for the purchase of weapons. Since then laws have been passed forbidding firearms where liquor is sold in Texas, I guess I wish things were like the good old days when we didn't have the government murdering our people and drug crazed maniacs killing our kids in schools, AND WE HAD THE "Stop and Go Gun and Liquor store". It seems to me the more restrictions ,laws and cops their are, the crazier everything has gotten, correct me if I am wrong.

It also seems to me the nanny state has created people who have no responsibility concerning anything.

MY POINT FOR WRITING THIS IS FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHOEVER KNOWN FREEDOM and WHO HAVE NO REFERENCE TO GO BY AS TO WHAT FREEDOM ACTUALLY IS, SO THAT THEY WILL REALIZE IT SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING AND PERHAPS EVEN DYING FOR. WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS IMPRISONMENT WITHIN OUT OWN MINDS,and I am absolutely certain a return to the way things were is a step in the right direction and the most logical course of action.

This of course will not be easy, but it IS within our reach and our capability, and I have the distinct feeling the banksters behind all of this erosion of freedom, corrosion of our societal norms, destruction of our families, and overall systematic destruction of our way of life are in for a wake up call. it's time someone dilaed the number.

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