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Mar 02, 2008 @ 03:54:21 | #16 | arrowinore
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36/F/The Valley, Oregon Join Date: Feb 2008 | Ok ok, every one back into their corners, here's my opinion. I think that the time has come, most definetly, to re-write the constitution to fit the times. It was a great and very substantial paper, BACK THEN. Now? Not so much. It is out dated, and personally, badly written. There are too many areas where modern lawmakers can read into it what ever they want and deface the 'old laws and rules'. Hmmmm, reminds me of another famous writen word that was read into too much, and still causes much grief, but than this is just my opinion right...)for what it is worth, I am white, but am also looking at moving out of the US in the next 5-7 years.I am not leaving because I may hate the US, but because I m bored with the same-old same-old "white boy nation" it had become. but 'All be bock'...
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Mar 03, 2008 @ 03:19:38 | #22 | arrowinore
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36/F/The Valley, Oregon Join Date: Feb 2008 | Yea, i am not planning on leaving cuz of racism, THAT'S all over, I am just tired of being here. There are at least 4 other continents that I still have to visit...America, eeeh, been there, still there, done that...
 "We're all really smart kids, we're just stuck in a really stupid world." my pal Tauri on a drunkin evening back in 1988... | | |
Mar 03, 2008 @ 03:20:58 | #23 | jonnythan
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27/M/NY, New York Join Date: Aug 2005 | arrowinore said: Ok ok, every one back into their corners, here's my opinion. I think that the time has come, most definetly, to re-write the constitution to fit the times. It was a great and very substantial paper, BACK THEN. Now? Not so much. It is out dated, and personally, badly written. There are too many areas where modern lawmakers can read into it what ever they want and deface the 'old laws and rules'. Hmmmm, reminds me of another famous writen word that was read into too much, and still causes much grief, but than this is just my opinion right...)for what it is worth, I am white, but am also looking at moving out of the US in the next 5-7 years.I am not leaving because I may hate the US, but because I m bored with the same-old same-old "white boy nation" it had become. but 'All be bock'...
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What sections are badly written, and how could they been written better?
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Apr 24, 2008 @ 01:39:08 | #28 | notca
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71/NA/, Join Date: Apr 2008 | Not at all. It doesn't matter what the laws and traditions were based on. It only matters that they worked well. If they happened to be based on Christianity, that's just how it is.
As for having to give up our freedom of public religious symbalism, that is very unfair when you consider that all religions other than Christianity are allowed that freedom.
It doesn't offend the majority of Christians if other cultures wear turbans, burkas, or carry daggers. Why then does Christianity offend those religions?
I don't understand how anyone can be offended by someone else's religion.No one is trying to convert or asking them to join in Christian celebrations. So why can't they just practise their various religions and leave Christianity alone?
When I was in elementary school there were Protestants, Catholics and Jews in the class. The majority were Protestants. There were probably a few aetheists too, for all I know. When the Lord's Prayer was recited every morning those who didn't believe in it just didn't participate. They didn't protest, and who did it hurt?
When we travel to another country, we stand respectfully when their national anthem is played. Out of respect. It's all a matter of respecting the beliefs and traditions of others. When I go to a function in a church of another faith, I don't participate in their rituals but I don't cause a fuss either.
Then there's the hate laws that rankle so many people.
What this means is that if a person broke into my house, stole all my money and beat me up, he might (and I DO mean might!) get a jail sentence. Chances are it would be the minimum allowed, and he would be out after serving 1/3 of his sentence. If the person broke into the house of a minority family across the street, stole from them and beat them up he would get a mandatory sentence with no early release. Now is that fair? Is my safety and well-being not just as important as the minority family?
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May 29, 2008 @ 00:19:21 | #29 | beanpop
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17/F/fort walton beach, Florida Join Date: May 2008 | It amazes me that still to this date that minorities( blacks especially) can still bitch about the most trivial injustices committed against them. Just to let you know this white america image couldn't be anymore bulls**t. Whites( America especially) as done more for africa then the africans have. We have provided aid to them and even sent over troops to help establish democracy, which has cost us men, men that have families.So before you bad talk america and how you think the constitution only applies to whites, know what your talking about. The best part is when minorities bitch about how there unfairly treated is, that in there own countrys its way worse example AFRICA. Over there the men can rape women without punishment, they can kill in the streets without worrying about law enforcement.
And although this wanst in the constitution but instead in the Declaration of Independence, the famous line all men are created equal, only meant that all white men were created equal and if you dont believe and just think im a racist f**k, look it up. Thomas Jefferson its author owned slaves.Oh yeah and for the record blacks owned blacks so whites werent the only ones who enslaved. | | |
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