Neal is right. Now that the Federal government owns the largest banks in America the bureaucrats can confiscate your money without Congressional permission. Not to mention the Federal Reserve has already been confiscating your savings for a hundred years. Every time they print another Federal Reserve Note they are stealing your wealth.

I'm sure Neal meant insurrection not "resurrection."

Don't fret hyonn, if I'd of been on the jury, what his lordship Milt37 thinks would be irrelevant.

When it comes to seeing personal liberty through the lens of their personal prejudices, very few people have a clear view.

nomad5 asks: [Will secularists give up] "Publicly-funded abortions?" Answer: Being pro-life myself, I recognize the fundamental immorality of taxing anti-freedom people to pay for the basic rights of others. The power to do this much be wrested from government, so all can be free to follow their conscience.

nomad5 asks: "Will the secularists be just as willing to remove their impositions from the people of faith?" Answer: No. So long as you allow them power over you they will exercise it for their own ends. The first step is for you to give up your desire to control the thoughts and actions of others.

Why are those who want to pray not content with silent, private prayer? Why are those who want to pray so ready to impose themselves on those who do not want to pray? Is it fair to insist upon wasting the time of those who find no value in prayer? Is it right to require others to suspend their lives while you preform a symbolic ritual? Shouldn't those who want to demonstrate their faith do so with good lives, and good works, and earn the respect of others, rather than bully others into silent acceptance? By all means practice your faith. but keep in mind that it is your faith. Religious freedom means you can live your faith right up to the point you interfere with the rights of others.

Ultimately the war on drugs is a wholly unAmerican idea. To lend support to such notions is to ignore the ideals upon which this nation was founded.

also 1453: War cannot be waged upon a commodity. The war-on-drugs is really a war on people. It is a war that has lead to such idiocies as the concept of inanimate objects committing crimes.

1453: You do not have to chose between extremes. Individual freedom protected by limited government is the correct and moderate path.

Curtis: You are wrong. You must check your facts. Prohibition caused Americans to switch from beer as the alcoholic beverage of choice to hard liquors. Subsequent to the ratification of the 21st Amendment consumption of all classes of alcoholic beverages increased. After a time it began to decline, ultimately leading to the introduction of lite and even non-alcoholic beer-like beverages.