If you honestly and sincerely dislike your government...?

Question

Should you feel free to say it to anyone you choose. Officials, cops, teachers, other citizens... or should you live in fear of the repercussions of speaking what you sincerely believe?

Is it better to be a quiet citizen mouse, and accept being crushed by the state... or better to speak up, knowing that they may put even more crush on you when you do?

Answer 1

Crushed by the state?? Who is being crushed? No, I speak my mind at all times. I have no fear of repercussions. Anyone who does is simple minded and weak. We live in America. People speak out against the govt every day and do they get censored or jailed? NO! Wake up people. You have the right to say what you want but you also have the responsibility to be able to back that up with facts. Try it sometime. Its great!

Answer 2

Hmm watch "V for Vendetta". speak up, or else you are a sheep. if you live in a country where there are repercussions, it is better to speak than remain silent and have other suffer. If you live in a country where you are free to speak as you chose, you need to speak to keep it from becoming a fearful state. The government is more afraid of the people than you think, it just acts arrogant and superior in an attempt to fool the general population that they know better. Which they do not always.

Answer 3

yes you can jump on a d**n car and say it out loud then run because if its at night your disturbing people but people won't do anything if its your car they just stare for seeing you jump on your own car ha

i would so do that but i already get stared for my beauty =D

Answer 4

all there is in the american goverment are thieves i'd like to see clinton bloomberg and all of them get taxed as much as we do they get richer while we get poorer

i think our goverments pretty corrupted if you ask me

we give and then they take more

Answer 5

Are you a disenfranchised LIBERAL by any chance?

Answer 6

There are skillful ways of expressing dissent and there are crude ways of expressing it.  You will invite less repercussion if you become skilled in how you communicate your disagreements.  First, back your opinion up with facts. Second, avoid inflamatory words.  They don't advance your ideas and usually lower your credibility and thus, the value of what you think about anything.  Third, realize that when you become a dissenter, you may be closing some doors, politically, professionally or in relationship.  After you consider those ramifications, if you choose to go forward, then don't feel sorry for yourself.  That's the price one pays for being outside of the so called box.

Answer 7

You're not American, are you?

http://theinternetassassin.com/

Answer 8

Solar Power Socialism which could end Global Warming and help society could be a start. The next step to set up a site which would relay the opinons of citizens of The Middle East to counteract the tendancies of the state of which you speak by the invitation to express views of Middle Eastern Scientists  on Global Warming. The idea to get the focus where should be beyond just the idea of terrorists.

Answer 9

It is better to pick your battles, meaning finding the right time to voice your opinion.

I would not recommend going to a Evangilist revival meeting and stating you hate Bush and Cheney...

Answer 10

speak your mind on this, i too hate the government and am always expressing it to teachers etc, i wudnt recomend violence against the government though

Answer 11

I don't dislike it.  I think it needs fixing.  I do what I can (voting writing letters) on my end to fix what I can.

Answer 12

Speak up!  This "is" America and we "do" have free speach!

Our forefathers made this country to be so we can and should speak out!

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is quoted from the American Declaration of Independence!

      The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

       Mark Twain  1835 -1910

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

    Mark Twain

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

    Mark Twain

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the congress is in session.

      Mark Twain

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

         Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

        Mark Twain

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

      Samuel Adams

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."

          Samuel Adams

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.  We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.  If we run into such debt, as we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds…  we will have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account, but we will be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers…  And this is the tendency of all human governments.  A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent foe another… till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery…  And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.  Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.

      Thomas Jefferson  1743-1826

     To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

     Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."

          Thomas Jefferson

"... whenever any form of government becomes destructive ... it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it..."

        Thomas Jefferson

     Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

      George Orwell

      Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

      Margaret Chase Smith

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

       George Washington

"Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world"

       George Washington

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

     Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.”

       James Madison

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'

     Theodore Roosevelt