Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

SATS, If you really want to live in the world that you are describing, move to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, where speaking out against leadership gets your ostracized from your friends and co-workers.

I'm tired of people saying that our rights are being eroded. You're speaking freely, you aren't incarcerated for saying what you are saying. You are not being incarcerated for assembling and gathering together with your friends and family. You aren't being incarcerated for an intellectual crimes like Nelson Mandela.

While you're not here in NYC, the bike rider protests were annoying. I didn't walk through the, but some of my good friends did and they said these people were just assholes. Had they just followed traffic laws and moved along with traffic that would have been a peaceful protest. But to CAUSE more traffic, to make it difficult for ambulances to get through traffic (which is already difficult enough) is asinine and NOT peaceful, when you live amongst 8 million people.