Land of the Free?

Not hardly. Let me elucidate.

The United States Government owns EVERYTHING. Including the people. I know what you're thinking... "No they don't I'm FREE! I have RIGHTS!" Let's look at it closely.

1) Part of all of your labor (Income tax) is automatically owed to the Federal Government for your entire life. Try to avoid this fee for allowing you to work and you will be punished through fines and/or imprisonment! Here's an eye opening fact, the first Federal Income Tax wasn't until 1930! Amazing how we prospered as a nation without massive taxes until we started trying to support a Welfare/Warfare State.

2) Think you own your home, even if it's "paid for"? Try not paying your property tax. You will be punished and "your land" taken. Think of your property tax as the fee you pay, in perpetuity, to be allowed to use "your land". Stop paying and the land reverts to it's true owner, the Government.

3) Right to Privacy or to be free of unwarranted search and seizure, a la the 4th Amendment. Not since the so called Patriot Act. Agents of the Government can now secretly listen to your private conversations and/or search your property on their own authority with a "national security letter". They claim you're a possible danger and your Constitutional Rights evaporate.

4) Habeas Corpus, a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them. Yeah, that WAS a biggie, it was around since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215! Then Bush discarded it "for our safety" and Obama has continued this Unconstitutional outrage; even furthered it. Today, by order of the executive branch, anyone, including US Citizens, that are deemed "a threat" may be detained without charges or trial INDEFINITELY. Obama carried this one step further and added that a US Citizen can be assassinated by order of the President without trial or charges even being brought against them, anywhere in the world! Obama has, in fact, ordered the assassination of a US Citizen already and has not bothered to charge him with anything.

Democrat or Republican, until we demand that everyone abide by the Constitution, neither have a right to complain about the excesses of the other. Demand that everyone have liberty or no one will have it!