America is a REPUBLIC. We exercise our voice at the voting booth when we elect those who represent the people.
You, sir, are ignorant of history. We may be a representative republic but we also have the right to be heard. Anything else would mean that we are ruled. Read the First and Ninth Amendments.
317 posted on 03/06/2009 5:58:29 PM PST by DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)