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This is the first time I have ever heard anyone say a "Die-In" or blocking traffic on a major highway was how Democracy works.
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Relentless protest is the only reason Women have the right to vote. Relentless protest and sturggle is the only way the civil rights movement advanced in the face of violent opposition in many states. The United States itself is a nation born from civil protest!!!
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If we don't like them, we change them, by changing the officials who made them, not by staging a "Die-In" or by blocking roads or throwing riocks at the police, burning cars, businesses etc.
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You've just made a huge leap from civil protest to riot. Let's be clear, Die-ins or marches that block traffic are not riots. They have the potential to become them but then so does every major sporting event.
Then again, the PRC government seemed to share your thinking on this when they killed those kids at Tienman Square. That sit in had the potential to expldoe, so they brought in the army and slaughtered them. Truly a disgrace that we let that fly with no more than a slap on the hand IMHO.
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If that is your idea of Freedom and Liberty and even Democracy, then I think you need to look for another country.
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So I disagree with you and now I have to look for another country? This doesn't even dignify a response. Grow up.
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As for the Declaration of Independence; it had to do with Taxation Without Repreesentation. The King taxed us but would not allow us to viote in their Parliment.
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Taxation without representation was part of the issue, but it probably had more to do with taxation period. I'm not as well read on the War of Independence's origins as I should be, but what I've read clearly points to many other factors that led to the war...
The DoI and the Constituion are designed to protect the people from abuse of power by the government. Not the other way around. That's why the burden of proof lies with the accuser in our legal system. They insure freedom, not restrict it.
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