Re: REST of the WORLD is ENVIOUS of AMAZING FREEDOM ENJOYED by AMERICANS

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Then move to Iran, dipshit. Stop whining.
js
"Ken Smith" <forget@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:44B38099.2010306@xxxxxxxxx
> Robert L Bass wrote:
>>>It would appear that the Left has no use for Free Speech.
>
>
>> Everybody wants to exercise their freedom of speech.  The problem is most
>> people don't want to hear anyone else theirs.
>
>   One of the most cherished rights of man is to be able to speak his mind
> on issues of the day without the fear that he will be retaliated against
> for it by the government.
>
>   That right is *gone* in America.
>
>> I think it was the comedian Jacov Smirnov whose famous monologue
>> included:
>>
>> "In America have freedom of speech."
>> "In Russia have freedom of speech too."
>> "In America have freedom *after* speech.  Nice feature."
>
>   We do?  It's news to me.  All we have are "liberties," which can be
> taken away at any time by our masters in government -- without cause,
> justification, or recourse.  Our situation is substantively
> indistinguishable from that in the old Soviet Union.
>
>   I hope you are perspicacious enough to appreciate the difference.
>
>   In most of the rest of the civilised world, when government officials
> violate your fundamental human rights (as defined by the International
> Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is essentially analogous to
> our essentially dead and buried Bill of Rights), you can walk into a
> transnational court and sue your government.  Anywhere in the EU, it is
> the EU Court; other countries have signed the Optional Protocol and are
> obligated to abide by the judgments of an international court.
>
>   But not AmeriKKKA.  Our leaders want us to be just like China.
>
>   In AmeriKKKa, the King can do no wrong.  Judges are immune.  District
> attorneys are immune.  Presidents are immune -- and ours has so much as
> said that he's not going to follow the laws we passed (in his so-called
> "signing statements").  That sort of nonsense isn't even tolerated in
> Iran: Judges can be held personally liable for willful misconduct on the
> bench as a matter of constitutional law.
>
>   We invade countries without cause, our own GRU monitors our telephone
> calls and financial transactions, and routinely retaliate against those
> who say what officious bureaucrats don't want to have heard.  If you are
> under the strong delusion that you are still free men, you haven't been
> paying attention.
>