Americans have more freedom than Iranians, but they don't have as much as they believe/project to, media and propaganda goes a long way. No-one would care if the nation's motto didn't include the words liberty and freedom.
The UK isn't much better, but we don't claim to be on a high horse. Personally I get the impression central/western Europe has the most freedom, Germany particularly (huh huh irony).
Last edited by xenaros; 2012-01-20 at 10:13 AM.
The Allies would've definitely lost World War II if the Horde had taken part
No i am not from holland and where i am from is right below my avatar... The US prison population dwarfs any other country by both percent and amount... They have more prisoners than China...
Also weed is illegal in the US by federal law and while medical weed is "allowed" in some states you could be arrested at any moment for possession if they on a whim chose to enforce it...
Actually, the strands developed in the Netherlands were the first that can be grown in doors, are much stronger and pretty much eradicated outdoor growing.
Furthermore, if you think you can grow good weed, corn, vegatables or any other crops when you are a dipshit you really don't know what agriculture entails lol.
I think this belief comes more from the observation of what the government has done in the past to get a tighter grip on us. The fear these people express is not of us having no freedom in the present but of having none in the future.
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Obviously you have more "rights" than those countries, but rights is just an idea, a privilege. The goverment can remove those privileges at any moment if they like it. Just look at the news or history then you know its true America seems like many other countries to be obsessd with getting more and more "security", security that slowly but steady ships away their rights to privacy, for the illusion of "security". I dont think this is a healthy evulution, but thats just my opinion
I'm not in the busisnes of bashing countries or making others seem totaly awesome. Personaly, I am against weed and other form of drugs.
The fact is that (let's put it in common language here) BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOMZ in terms of (soft) drug legislation we have developed quality strands of weed that is exported around the world and used for purposes so that people who can actualy benefit from it don't have to pay a retarded price for a crap and often unsafe product.
think it fits here too "it's called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - george carlin. just watch some of his shows and youd know whats wrong in america and the loss of ur oh so precious freedroms
Last edited by Kieke; 2012-01-20 at 10:27 AM.
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And the fact that this technique can (they are trying at least) be copied into eddible crops which makes an American company unhappy since they are the largest supplier of farmfertilisers and heavily invested in gentechnology which they are testing in Africa (ghana amongst others) since they are illegal to be tested in the US. That is what I happen to know
1. "Freedom" and "privacy" are two entirely different things. There are few countries in the world (that have some form of central government) where the population has as much "freedom" and "rights" as Americans do. Privacy is an entirely different thing. 9/11 and the ensuing legislative changes killed off the last bit of it we had left. Currently, the only people in the world that have privacy are primitive tribes that are yet to be discovered. Everyone else can be 100% monitored, by government agencies and private companies that have the resources for it.
2. Elected officials in the USA, generally speaking, do not serve the nation, nor it's people. Due to the tremendous impact funds have on election campains, anyone who is in any position of power was put there by corporations, industries, or individuals with the funds to do so, for one purpose: to protect their interests. If you do not have the backing of corporations/industries/individuals that have the money to bring you to power, you simply will not be able to achief a position of power. This is exactly what is happening in this case: bills are proposed and will possibly pass that do not serve the nation, nor it's people, but only the selected few that invested the money to get this bill passed.
I'm not bashing anyone for saying it, I'm correcting them. And yes, it is the wrong name. I can give you a long and historical explanation as to how this misconception came to be and why it is wrong - but let's not derail this thread even further.
This reminds me those students getting pepper-sprayed while being bound on the ground. The media and general public took it with outrage - but didn't the students pretty much get it onto themselves because of prior actions and such?