September 07, 2010 12:17:38 PM
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Barbara Lifton

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It means that we have a natural and constitutional right to speak our minds openly without fear of retaliation or supression by the government; that we have the right to chose our representatives in free and open elections; that we are free to practice or not to practice any spiritual belief; that we have a natural right to privacy, including the right to make decisions about childbirth and sexual choice; and that we have a system of laws, not poltics, in the way our governemt is run.

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Nothing. This country has always been, from our beginnings, chaotic, insane, indecisive, misinformed, brilliant and open- even in periods of seeming repression like during wars. All we need is more accurate information about what is really going on in goevernment- which mean we have to demand that the media provide real investigative journalism.

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See above.

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PLEASE do something about the new voting machines- thousands of seniors like my husband and me, will be disenfranchised because they are digital!!!! HELP!

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