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In reply to the discussion: I live in the greatest country in the world! Land of the free! (dial up warning, pics! Graphic!) [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)142. The first few photos are of things done to deter crime
What's so bad about that? It doesn't mean the people aren't free. Just a bit practical.
I'm for gun control.
The drones are to my mind better than outright war - at least this way we target specific baddies, unlike say Hiroshima. Whether we really need to take these people out is another question but some of them are surely planning attacks on us. Can't we fight back?
I don't know what the data is all about, but do you have anything other than cynicism to support the idea it is for sinister purposes? Has anyone ever been prosecuted for anything as a result of it? The IRS all by itself has impressive records on practically all income. Did you find that oppressive or just for the enforcement of the tax laws.
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I live in the greatest country in the world! Land of the free! (dial up warning, pics! Graphic!) [View all]
SomethingFishy
Feb 2013
OP
Your photos are starkly graphic and reveal, imo, what a right-wing-soused society
indepat
Feb 2013
#11
By "in power" you mean Dems. have the Executive Branch? Do some deeper think, I think you should.
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#79
Europe is ten times better for their people than North America is for our people.
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2013
#60
The Soviet Union never had the capabality, nor any short-term plans for invading North America.
Democracyinkind
Feb 2013
#123
Britain does, not all Europe. Britain is more like us but with some social programs
newthinking
Feb 2013
#81
It certainly puts to rest the "Home of the brave" and "peace loving" myths.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#33
Wonderful Post and so telling. We're the only country that consistently tells...
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#34
This is one of the best threads on this topic that I've seen on any of the forums I visit. Very Nice
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#35
Only in America do consumers have such freedom of choice: AR-15, MAK-10 or 12-guage auto shotgun
leveymg
Feb 2013
#36
'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free'
lunasun
Feb 2013
#77
Fewer and fewer of us live a "normal" middle-class American life, and frankly, things suck.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#105
See how the Second Amendment and all those guns have kept us safe from tyranny?
Doctor_J
Feb 2013
#107
Just do a search on Pyramid of Capitalism. There are a lot of versions of this 1911
valerief
Feb 2013
#111
There is indeed, and we keep committing them in the name of Democracy.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#129
I got a post hidden for showing two pictures of dead children much like yours. I wonder why
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#144