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Nobel Prize is No Trade for the Freedoms-Liberties Guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence-Constitution of the United States of America

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Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Oct 12, 2009 at 19:48

Well, maybe here, after looking at some of the exchanges on this post and elsewhere, that it can be truly said if one does not fully appreciate the freedoms and liberties of American citizenship as developed and fought for by the founding Christian agency of this country's forebears and paid for by the blood of those sacrificing their lives for those very freedoms and liberties, any criticisms without that sense so instilled directed towards America have hollow sentiments and empty meaning. There is no Nobel Prize worth an ounce of American blood shed to protect her freedoms as provided for by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, or a gram of Nobel gold worth the dust that received that spent blood.

Do we, as Americans, really think we should be delighted to cast off those liberties so dearly paid for by wanting radical change, desiring to convert the freedoms we have and wish to share by devaluing the liberties so dearly fought for? Is it a cowboy mentality that brought this nation from the darkened societies of Europe hundreds of years ago, to forge a modern society that sought to break the yoke of imperialistic ideologies and eventually set the individual free, in spite of the persistent and malingering mentality of some who tried to keep a burden of oppression on any that did not meet a bigoted mindset that traps so many still?

Do we as Americans truly share in a prize that is political beyond the liberties expressed in the Constitution of the Unites States of America? Or, are we merely observers of a process of European invention meant to protract the same mentalities that the first true Americans sought to distance themselves from when it became apparent that true peace can only come from those desiring to keep freedom from being downtrodden by agencies looking for a false hope of global sympathies that can never agree on what freedom and liberty truly is. There should not be, indeed cannot be any trade of a gold prize for the freedoms and liberties guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, underwritten by the WORD of Almighty God, the Holy Bible.

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Barack Hussain Obama is buying peace on Higher cost [27 words]Amitabh TripathiOct 27, 2009 07:51163602
What Good Public Relations Can Do [162 words]B.N.GururajOct 24, 2009 23:55163528
The Milli Vanilli Grammy... [41 words]HomefrontOct 19, 2009 01:58163235
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Peace prize? [35 words]RozOct 14, 2009 12:35163065
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What to do... [168 words]Phoenix287Oct 10, 2009 13:18162903
I rather agree [25 words]Peter HerzOct 12, 2009 20:55162903
The U.S should be delighted with its Nobel Prize [118 words]Dr Arnold MANNOct 10, 2009 11:09162900
I rather disagree--at least in part [327 words]Peter HerzOct 12, 2009 21:08162900
correction [116 words]CanaanOct 14, 2009 22:48162900
Our emperor in his newest clothes [131 words]Rebecca MouldsOct 10, 2009 10:53162898
Congrats, Mr. Prez! [193 words]Peter HerzOct 10, 2009 06:38162887
The Nobel Prize to Obama divinizes hypocrisy [120 words]Francesco MangasciàOct 10, 2009 03:30162886
It could be true, but then something else could be true as well. [276 words]P C ManiOct 10, 2009 02:58162885
How about that? [60 words]CanaanOct 14, 2009 23:03162885
Prize for "Hope" [250 words]Fay VoshellOct 10, 2009 02:26162884
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Lest we forget [127 words]there is NO Santa ClausOct 9, 2009 20:04162867
the downgrading of the Nobel Prize [150 words]Jules PostenOct 9, 2009 19:04162866
The International "Dhimmi" of the Year Award [46 words]merisraelOct 9, 2009 18:18162863
Why is it so difficult to understand? [333 words]P C ManiOct 12, 2009 02:56162863
Obama in a good company... [43 words]TiborOct 9, 2009 17:49162862
Precedent [11 words]BronsonOct 12, 2009 01:04162862
Nobel Prize is No Trade for the Freedoms-Liberties Guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence-Constitution of the United States of America [376 words]M. ToveyOct 12, 2009 19:48162862

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