[magic452]

With all do respect, and I do mean that, nobody said anything about looking down on anybody. A simple poll nothing more and isn't that what Freedom, Liberty and Democratic are all about.

Americans have been standing up for Liberty for over 200 hundred years and many thousands have died because of it. We have paid our blood and treasure many times already and will do so again if necessary.

Don't forget that it was an American that said " Give me Liberty or give me death" and he wasn't standing on a soapbox but rather a gallows at the time.

People start giving up their "Liberty" and it's possible we may be put into the position you described and experienced.

What got your people into that position in the first place was a government that got too powerful. There are many Americans that will not let that happen here. Don't underestimate us.

I lived the entire Cold War, albeit from the other side of the coin but I nor anybody that I knew ever looked down on the people of Russia. Some times you got to do what you got to do to survive. What we don't want to see here is us being put into that position in the first place and one way that can happen is to start giving up your rights a little at a time.

Look at the Second Amendment gun thread and also put it together with the one on the IRS looking at your E Mails without warrants, the Fourth Amendment. A little bit at a time.

If the experience of the Russian people says one thing to the people of the US it is don't let that happen here. A little bit at a time.

I'll come down from my soapbox now.

Magic