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Originally posted by jaguar
I also find the irony of americans claiming to have free speach pretty funny as well.
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Go ahead, knock me out. Who's the last guy to sit in an American prison for making a racial slur? How about for criticizing the ruling powers? For protesting against the war? For advocating an unpopular, radical overhaul of the culture or the law?
Several months ago, I ended up in the middle of downtown LA, near a protest against the war in Iraq. There were people standing on a platform, speaking into a microphone to a crowd of thousands, and saying the most vile and hateful things against the leader of our country. Standing around the perimeter were hundreds of police officers - they were facing outward. They were protecting the protestors from the angry counter-protestors gathered to shout them down.
You want to know the condition of our freedom here in America? We pay officers of the state to protect and defend those who criticize the state.
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