Recent content by OmegaWolf747

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/27/tech/main6903887.shtml The Obama administration wants to make it easier for the government to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries. The New York Times reports Monday that the White House...

I think NH is an awesome choice. They don't even have seatbelt laws there! NH is just about the last libertarian state in the Union!

Has NH? No. But they have the Free State Project, where liberty-minded people moved there and created a kind of libertarian utopia. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

It disgusts me, but doesn't surprise me.

Try New Hampshire!

I often wonder how things would be today if we had stayed a confederation of interdependent states with the capital in Philadelphia.

I'm against uniforms. I know it's never been ruled specifically, but it seems like such an affront to the First Amendment.

Yeah, the Civil War was really about the suppression of states' rights.

Yes, they are very ignorant. I don't even watch American Idol. So you do think that 100 years ago, people would have rebelled against, or at least opposed many of the laws we tolerate today?

You'll get no argument from me on that. I'm just wondering if people nowadays aren't more tolerant of government interference than our great grandparents would have been. Do you think we've become complacent?

Well yeah. But I mean instances of citizens saying "no" to something a local, state or the federal government wanted to implement. For instance, we now have smoking bans. But wouldn't smoking bans have been scorned 100 years ago in this country? We now have seatbelt laws. Wouldn't people...

I mean sources like articles. I tried Google, but couldn't find anything. I've always been certain that people were less tolerant of government intrusion into their lives a few generations ago, but I don't actually know if this was so.

All the garbage our government does nowadays, such as sobriety checkpoints... would the citizens of this country have put up with such nonsense 100 years ago, or would there have been a violent resistance? I'm debating with some people on another message board, but I need sources, or it's not a...

I don't see how checkpoints don't "offend" the Constitution. To me, checkpoints are the antithesis of the freedoms the nation's Fathers fought and died for. Has the Supreme Court ever ruled on checkpoints, or have challenges to them only gotten as far as state supreme courts?

As much as I agree with this in principle, the reality is if a parent allowed their kid to burn themselves to teach them a lesson, they would be charged with child abuse, neglect or some other nanny state crap. The other sad reality is if parents spank their kids to stop them from burning...