Originally Posted by martyh

As a country as a whole we are in a position were we need to decide if we want a full democracy with all the freedom that goes with it or do we want to pick and choose what we think democracy and freedom mean .We go to war to protect freedom ,to force other countries to accept democracy and yet at the same time we want to deny it to other people in our own land simply because some don't agree with it .Soldiers have died in Afganistan and Iraq to bring democracy to countries that have never known freedom of any kind ,their deaths are meaningless if we don't uphold the true meaning of freedom and democracy however distastful it might be