THE REAL CIVIL LIBERTIES AT RISK

This whole war on terror has been hard to fight with liberals screaming that our civil liberties are being taken away because the government wants warrantless wiretaps to listen to terrorists who call into our country, or because the government wants to keep the terrorist in Gitmo instead of on U.S. soil where they will autmomatically be treated like common everyday criminals instead of terrorists.

Every person sitting in Guantanamo Bay has been caught killing or trying to kill our soldiers and other Americans, so forgive me if I don't give a second thought to how they are treated. I could care less if we hung them upside down by their toes, and fed them to pigs for no other reason than that they are murderous thugs. The truth is they are treated much better than they ought to be treated because we have become such a politically correct country, but I'm not writing this to talk about the terrorists, I am writing this to talk about the real civil liberties that we are losing.

Did you know that in 2012, you will no longer be able to choose the kind of light bulb that you would like to use? Thats right, incadescent light bulbs were outlawed by Congress in the name of environmentalism. We will be forced to use the compact fluorescent lights which already cost $3.00 - $10.00 a piece. Once there is a monopoly, they will cost even more. But that isn't all, these bulbs contain Mercury at levels that are dangerous. So dangerous, that if one breaks over a carpeted area, they recommend that we cut out that area of carpet (not vacuum it). We can't throw these things in the regular trash, because they are bio-hazards. Thanks to our Congress who is focused on pushing the global warming hoax onto the rest of us, we have lost the right to decide if we can light our house with a bulb that uses more energy but is safe or a bulb that uses less energy but is poisonous to plants, animals and people.

Funny how liberals are always attacking the rich, but the trial lawyers keep getting richer with all of the liberal meddling in our lives. Take tobacco. Trial lawyers were able to sue tobacco companies for people who have gotten cancer from smoking, even though cigarettes started warning people that they were dangerous for your health in 1966. If you continued to smoke after that, you should have to take some personal responsibility for that.

Trial lawyers have been suing the government on behalf of terrorists, and other unlawful combatants, and they will sue over broken mercury lightbulbs. Former Democratic candidate, John Edwards, a trial lawyer, made his fortune off of suing doctors claiming that botched deliveries caused cerebral palsy. Because these were jury trials, and John Edwards used emotional arguments, often his clients won their cases, even though it is very rare for the kind of brain-damage needed to cause cerebral palsy to be caused by a doctor. Indeed, most studies seem to indicate a genetic link, but it doesn't matter now. John Edwards got his money and there is nothing the doctors and insurance companies can do to get it back. He and others like him are a part of the reason our medical bills are so high. When docotrs have to buy massive malpractice insurance policies to protect themselves from greedy lawyers, the cost is passed down to us.

Liberals in Congress are of the belief that government should be benevolent. In other words, we are too stupid to figure things out ourselves so we should let the government do it for us. Some of them have been pushing for taxes on junk food to fight obesity, others would like to force car makers to make more fuel efficient cars - which makes the cars more dangerous because the frames are weaker to make the car lighter, thus another avenue of revenue for trial lawyers. They don't want us to get tax cuts - always claiming the tax cuts only benefit the rich, while never defining who the rich are. The reason they don't like tax cuts is because it allows you to decide how to spend your money instead of allowing the government to decide. They would much rather use tax deductions to reward certain behaviors that they deem correct(for buying fuel-efficient cars, for building an environmentally friendly house). They also prefer to spend the money themselves. They have passed campaign finance laws that virtually silences free speech 60 days before an election. All of these things are creeping into our lives and slowly eroding the freedoms given to us by God and enumerated in the Constituion of the United States. When liberals are more worried about sparing the rights of terrorists while eagerly taking away our rights, I have to wonder.... whose side are they on anyway??