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"They've never been free. We've never not." You just explained the whole thing in seven words. Outstanding. -embycil
"we've never not"? Man you are showing your age. Your employer reports to the feds what you earn, the report is accurate because your employer does it voluntarily. Your bank reports any transactions in your bank account that the feds tell them to without providing you any notice. Whatever the feds request is reported on you with no notice to you or opportunity to contest. When you are at the Princetown campus info session try asking "are all races treated equal in admissions?" Your fellow citizens will fall all over themselves denouncing you and the university will support or suplant them. America today is very repressive. There are words you cannot say, opinions verboten, it is legal to take any amount of money out of the country but you have to list it on a form (answer me this - it says you have to list all money over $10,000 but when I fly, I buy a soda and may have US and a foreign currency, and I'm never sure exactly how much money I have - if my form was one cent off, what is the remedy? Do I have $10,000 confiscated because my "reporting" form is inaccurate? How long do they have to keep my cash? What is the judicial rights of me to get my cash? Do I have to fly out and leave my $10,000 behind with some sort of receipt in my hand that I never saw before and have no assurance it is worth anything. Anyone who travels with over $10 grand is a fool - the money may be taken at any moment. So in actuality you have no right to take cash ou of the USA.
I'd have to agree with Anonymous. Americans are noticeably less free than they were 40 years ago.
There are many things you can no longer do.
Americans were free, and certainly have the memory of having been free.
(That's not to say other countries are better)
In fairness to the average Chinese if they even touch that thing its probably the firing squad.
Uh, freedom is dearly bought, and the payments never stop. If ‛tweren’t, everyone would have some.
In fairness to the average Chinese if they even touch that thing its probably the firing squad.
Then after the first act of disobedience, the rest are free ( including assassinating Party members ).
The can't make you any deader than dead.
Kristopher: and that is an attitude that many Chinese are unable to adopt. It is completely "foreign" to their way of thought.
Individualism is something that is strongest in America, and much less so in the rest of the world.
Exactly.
People get as much government as they are willing to bear.