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We are as free-willed as can be, so far as the government will allow us to be, anyhow. I think the determinism argument comes from generations of submission to greater powers, be they government, class, religion, et al. Being that people are oppressed by such higher powers, they begin to feel like they are assigned an unfortunate fate which they are unlikely to change.
Precognition is a strange occurrence which in a way supports determinist theories, but I say the future is malleable and therefore if one knows of a future event, then one may act in the present to prevent or otherwise change the future.
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"I never stopped to think of it before, but you know - a policeman will jest stand there an' let a banker rob a farmer, or a finance man rob a workin' man. But if a farmer robs the banker - you'd have a whole darn army of cops out a-shootin' at him. Robbery is a chapter in etiquette." - Woody Guthrie
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