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heyrube of canaan, ME
Jul 4, 2009 11:30 AM
no pro- its conservative trash like you that only want these documents to pertain to you and no one you disagree withreport abuse
ProConserv of Taxville, ME
Jul 4, 2009 10:44 AM
SlyME and his liberal/democrat/statist friends are literally wiping their backsides with these documents!

These historical documents , the freedoms, the liberty, the meanings are of no concern to these radical left wing despots and the liberals/democrats/statists you elected!

Everyone who voted for obamy and democrats really voted for tyranny!report abuse
C-Fairer of Waterville, ME
Jul 4, 2009 9:15 AM
Devotion to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Can anyone today look upon the pack of scoundrels, fakers and crooks who control this great country and feel anything but the most utter distaste?
Economic freedom is gone. The tax burden that average Americans suffer are ten times as high as the tax rates under England.
Welfare, social security, military & prison programs are the largest on the earth.
Washington, DC is far more tyrannical toward the American people than England was before the Revolution.
America is a free country? In your dreams. Perhaps you think a free country is a country with elections. Voting for which politicians will be our new slave master is not liberty.
Liberty. To know you own the day, not some politician’s. Your life is yours. Your property is yours. You are in command of your destiny.
Happy 4th of July.report abuse
mdenis46 of formerly of Waterville, ME
Jul 4, 2009 7:58 AM
It was the "free and independent states" carried to its logical conclusion that was one of the downfalls of the Confederacy. The states would seldom work together for a common goal much of the time, and look where it got them.

Is dissolving the Union and going it alone the new definition of patriotism?report abuse

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