2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review

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Thanks for the great article on 2011 Civil Liberties Review.

Would have been better if you had included a paragraph on the loss of food freedom. Never thought I'd see the day when wholesome raw milk was poured in the gutter.
And the FDA calls walnuts a drug, while allowing Lay's Potato Chips to claim them as a "heart-healthy snack."

Also, what about medical freedom? As a vaccine truther, I know that parents are being harassed by pediatricians for exercising their freedom not to vaccinate. It's getting worse.

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Hi John,

It’s all true, the police state and loss of freedom. What you have written is undeniably true. It is constant surveillance, I know, I’ve experienced it first hand. However, what you didn’t mention was how long this has been active. The constant surveillance state has been active for a long time. People under surveillance, which could be most of us, are under surveillance for extended periods of time, it’s unrelenting. It’s not days or months, it years and even decades. I’m very sincere, it is extended periods of time.

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Hello,

I don't know who will be reading this email but after reading the HIGHLY disturbing article '2011: A Civil Liberties Year in Review' by John W. Whitehead (Dec. 27, 2011) I must ask the following question. Does Mr. Whitehead believe there is ANYTHING we as a nation or as individual citizens can DO to turn back the erosion of our freedoms (other than the obvious 'vote them out')? Are we doomed to simply accept these invasions of our civil liberties and the affronts to our Constitution? Is there ANY HOPE for the United States of America?

I realize that everything Mr. Whitehead wrote is TRUE (sadly). But he offers NO hope, NO plan(s) of action so to speak. He leaves the reader with an inevitable sense of doom that we will never again be a nation of personal freedom and liberty, that for which our founders and thousands upon thousands of men and women over generations have bled and died that we might retain.

Can't he offer us any possible solutions? It would be greatly appreciated!