Interesting Op-ed, "10 reasons US is no longer land of the free"

2012-01-17 06:56:53

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Hurricane2k9: Pendulous Sweaty Balls; +1,538|5952|College Park, MD

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ … story.html

Very interesting. In some ways we have a lot more in common with fucked up third-world dictatorships.

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2012-01-17 07:14:25

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Jaekus: I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose; +957|5429|Sydney

So glad I live in Australia. Our government at worst only ever gets a bit retarded, nothing too sinister. Our economy is kicking arse, we have a great environment, super multicultural society and our women are fiiiine.

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2012-01-17 07:52:51

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globefish23: sophisticated slacker; +334|6574|Graz, Austria

Benjamin Franklin once wrote:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

2012-01-17 07:55:29

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Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6990|Toronto | Canada

Jaekus wrote:
So glad I live in Canada. Our government at worst only ever gets a bit retarded, nothing too sinister. Our economy is kicking arse, we have a great environment, super multicultural society and our women are fiiiine.

2012-01-17 07:57:56

#5

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6751|so randum

and maple syrup

Small hourglass island
Always raining and foggy
Use an umbrella

2012-01-17 07:58:32

#6

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6910|BC, Canada

beautiful, delicious, maple syrup.

2012-01-17 07:59:00

#7

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6990|Toronto | Canada

and delicious bagged milk

2012-01-17 08:01:37

#8

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6910|BC, Canada

mmmmmmmmmmmmm. fresh milk from a bag.

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2012-01-17 08:35:44

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heggs: Spamalamadingdong; +581|6639|New York

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Jaekus wrote:
So glad I live in Canada. Our government at worst only ever gets a bit retarded, nothing too sinister. Our economy is kicking arse, we have a great environment, super multicultural society and our women are fiiiine.

Canada is mighty attractive. You have nice people, your cities are beautiful and I've never had a bad experience visiting.

Remember Me As A Time Of Day

2012-01-17 08:57:36

#10

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5609|London, England

But the government is wise and benevolent. They would never use their powers for evil. Never.

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-01-17 09:11:03

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Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6983|St. Andrews / Oslo

Uhh, is this meant to be a new observation? We've known this for ages. Hence the ever-present sarcastic 'land of the free' response to however many threads on these forums.