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Should the U.S. only do business with free countries?

Should the U.S. do business only with Free countries?

  • Yes, we should only do business with the free countries (shown as green on map)

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • We should do business with the green and yellow (Partly Free) countries, but not the purple (Not Fre

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • We should not impose sanctions on any country for any reason

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • US foreign policy should be based solely on America's practical national interests

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • US foreign policy should be based on moral principles and how other govts. treat their people

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • The (green) free countries should all unify and shut out the partly free and not free countries

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • Don't know/undecided

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Total voters
    16

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Nope. What you describe is the First Amendment. The 1st, however, is not "freedom of speech". Freedom of Speech is nothing more than a concept, and has several restrictions that have legal standing. With "Freedom of Speech" you cannot, without restriction, say or publish things that relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, "fighting words", classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury.


Until it's slander. Or if it incites someone to violence and is considered "fighting words".


Except for Military Bases, Nuclear plants, Industrial Facilities in general, Government grounds (even a Post Office is off-limits except for the office that is open to the public), Bohemian Grove, Granite Mountain, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the Douglas County servers for Google, Fort Knox, and several places in Washington D.C.


When you job can dictate your free time, call you in on your off-time, as well as dictate your behavior and public representation while not working? And when your health insurance is tied to your employment? Absolutely, that is a lack of freedom.


Not legally.


"At least our chains are solid gold, not hard-wrought iron!"


Not without heavy regulations.


Only if they're street-legal.


Also with several restrictions, and some is flat-out illegal.

As said, we have the illusion of freedom. Even if you buy that fast car and that airplane, you don't really own them. They can be seized by the Banks or Government in an instant. You don't even own the music on your iTunes account, you own the permission slip to listen to it so long as it is made available to you.
"Freedom" as you seem to think of the term cannot exist. When what one wants to do affects others it gets to the point where the government has to step in to regulate freedom. And "freedom of speech" has always been a first amendment issue. The other kind of freedom of speech has never existed.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Except for Military Bases, Nuclear plants, Industrial Facilities in general, Government grounds (even a Post Office is off-limits except for the office that is open to the public), Bohemian Grove, Granite Mountain, the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the Douglas County servers for Google, Fort Knox, and several places in Washington D.C.
This seems a rather disingenuous argument that we
lack freedom to travel...just cuz I can't go to some
high security places. Although back when I had the
right security clearance, I did go to a sensitive air base,
& a few other places guarded by guys with big guns.

The rest needn't be addressed.
 
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