Is "America" really the land of the free?

heather s

To me thats a yes and no question.Also very touchy at the same time.compared to other countries i would say yes,We still have to follow more rules than i will ever be able to understand.Some are just really stupid if i do say so myself.They say we have freedom of speech but that isnt always the case.The right to bare arms,thats not always the case either.So like i said thats a yes and a no question and just depends on what you mean by freedom.

grips

Let's see, your free to live where you want to. You're free to work where you want to. Your free to attend what church you want to attend or not attend. Your free to spend your earning on what you want to. You're free to drive whatever vehicle you want to (that you can afford). You're free to watch on TV and listen on the radio to what ever program you want to that's available. You do have to obey the laws so that your freedoms doesn't affect someone else's freedoms.

Yea, we're still the land of the free (and th home of the brave).

Anne

When we speak of the land of the free, is it about being free to pursue your dreams, not free to do anyone or anything you want. Just because we have the right to pursue our dreams that does not mean we do not have to follow the laws of this land.

Ice Saber

Yes. We have the freedom to chose our own leaders and representatives. We have freedom of speech, freedom of religion and many other rights. Just because we have laws doesn't mean that we're not free.

Kevy

More so than many other countries, Yes. Total freedom, nah.

Rudy L

I paid over twenty thousand in taxes last year....... WASN'T ANYTHING FREE ABOUT IT!!!

kobacker59

Pretty much so.

Robin L

Yes it is, However, Even the land of the free has rules, regulations and laws. with out them it would be total chaos.

thehowlingone

If by "free" you mean do Americans have the right to leave if they aren't happy here then yes. If on the other hand you mean a land without laws or limits then no.

toddyforyourbody

no its the land of the offended. you have to be so politically correct you cant be free.

skahhh

As close as it can be today.

Lori K

yes...it's not anarchy...but it's as free as a country can get without anarchy.

Razor Jim

Compared to the rest of the world yes!

45 auto

There is always a cost to free,If legal you have freedom,If not your have the wrath of 200+million USA citizens that are try to keep what we have>

hiya

I am not so sure.
I had the freedom to marry my husband, but denied the right to stay with him in the country of my birth. I feel the whole 'free' thing is a little blurred for me. I feel illegals will end up with more 'rights' than me.. :0(

marc_501usa

hell yeaah

stones

Oh yes it is .It's just that you have to give 40% to government to be able to say it.

Mer

More so than other countries.

Mom of 2

No. Our need to be politically correct has destroyed our ability to be free.

Commandant Marcos

Mexico is "free", you are free to do anything here that you are in the states, other than guns, no guns allowed here.
Other then that, its about the same.
You buy a drivers license, no test.
you can treat your animals badly, no laws there.
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, that includes being as loud as you want at your neighbors expense.
freedom to possess small quantities of drugs,Gringo's beware of this one.
You need permission to marry a foreigner though.
Every country convinces the populations that they are better off then other people, not necessarily true.

countryboy

At one time this was the land of the free, but has become the land of many people that can no longer live in the country they were born in. We offer alot more to people of other countries than we do the people born in America. What our young people of America over the years have lost their lifes to keep free is no more. America has become a mixing pot of good and bad. We open our arms to everyone that wants to come to this country with or without ways to support themselfs.The companies that don't want to follow safety ways, and maintain this land go to other countries to do business and then ship it back to America. Look at what is taking place with the items coming in from China, no one says anything until months after, yet something that another country finds to their dislike is no longer allowed for months or years.
We have reach the point that what we called the land of the free will take alot of years to restore.

elitesouthwest

to some extent

Teresa

free as pigs in a pen we are

brucec83

"Land of the Free" is a bumper-sticker slogan that has no basis in US constitutional law.

Freedom is the mid-point between slavery and anarchy. The USA has favored Freedom over Law & Order at various times in its history.

Most slogans like "Constitution state" or "Land of Lincoln," have some basis in fact. But it was coined in the age of kings when few people were free. Certainly we are freer than many and not as free as many,

charles

no because our freedom of speech is slowly fading away

kveldulf_gondlir

Nope. The "freedom" we have here is only an illusion. Freedom does not exist in any modern society.

juzbcuz

Yea, if you're an illegal. The rest of us pay for all your needs!

Brainshaker

"Land Of the Free."
I always figured that line in our National Anthem referred to freedom from oppression, essentially England. Thus, we are not oppressed by a foreign government where our rights are dictated by another but internally we are not at all free from oppression by our own government. Some Laws are passed that many of us never agreed to and actions taken on our behalf that we scorn. To understand Americans is to understand 80%. If we can get it right 80% of the time, then we're making progress. I think as long as we retain 80% of our rights offered under the Constitution and get to keep about 80% of our stuff, most Americans will remain oblivious and follow the status Quo. 80% freedom seems enough and allowing the government to control the 20 or so percent seems reasonable. But those freedoms continue to deteriorate and that 79% margin is looming very close. The Tax laws in this country I predict will be the very thing that destroys it. It won't be any forign terrorist group, it will be our own morrons taxing us to revolution. Reform that cancer and freedoms will increase and maybe get closer to what our forefathers intended.
Yet in the broad view of the game...let's just say, we are freer than most.
That 80% figure is a general observation... not based on any study

Robert T

Can you name a place where people have more freedom, better civil rights, better protection of women and minorities?

Can you name a country that will step in and help another country in need like the good ol US?

Look at the history of the US and how America was founded. America is all about being free from oppressive overpowering government, and the people selecting their own rulers by a democratic process. Here you have both the freedom and the opportunity to pursue your dreams.

db9494

We are alot freer then alot of other places thats for sure!!! But the government is starting to control our lives more and more..........

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