Hmmm, a German talking to me about freedom?<g>

>>Yep, some people like to moan and groan about how terrible the US is for defending freedom.
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>YOU DO NOT DEFEND FREEDOM.
>We don't need your freedom lies. Torture, occupation etc. is not covered by defending freedom.
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>cite:
>Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of "justice", but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial, and detergent effects of dissenters. If "freedom" becomes "privilege", the workings of political freedom are broken.
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>Rosa Luxemburg
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>The word that is used for somebody who places his freedom above anybody elses is not freedom fighter. The word to use is a very hard accusation and I do not wan't to be to say it.
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>Agnes