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The ones who are skeptical about global warming? Or the ones who are skeptical about big business's assurance that there is no global warming? I'm more skeptical about the explanations coming from PR professionals who have contracts with big corporations.
Natthebattherat, it is quite possible that Cambodia is now the freest country in the world. The freest country I've ever spent much time in was Paraguay.
Both. But I personally have more fear regarding the side that has and controls the guns and prisons.
I just saw a TV commercial in which the CEO of Sprint said this is the freest couintry in the world. Most Americans probably believe that. But, is it really?
Here's a few things that you can do in Venezuela that you can't do in the US:
- Build anything you want inside your property, your house can be 10 stories tall if you want to.
- Speed limit is optional, usually people go by common sense = it's fine to drive 100MPH on straight roads with few cars.
- You can burn the flag anytime you want to.
- You can protest with posters showing the head of the president on a platter.
I just saw a TV commercial in which the CEO of Sprint said this is the freest couintry in the world. Most Americans probably believe that. But, is it really?
Theres TOO many freedoms in the USA .... some which work against the overall good for american society. Especially moral freedoms .
Corporations have too much power here. You all fear politicians so much that you have allowed corporations to have more power than the politicians that you elect and at least have some power over.
In truth, find me a nation on earth whose people are truly "free". I bet you'll be hard pressed to do so and the United States is certainly NOT at the forefront of the freest nations on earth.
If you need to buy permission (prescription) from a government licensed person, before you can buy medicine from another government licensed person, who buys his supply from a government regulated source, at inflated prices, I do not think you are a free man.
If you need permission (license) before you can wed, travel, transmit, fly, enter occupations, operate a business, build a house, treat the sick, or have a dog, I do not think you are a free man.
If you are prohibited from protecting yourself and your property with any weapon you chose, and may be prosecuted for attempted suicide, I do not think you are a free man.
If you must pay a tax to live, work, buy, sell, and die, I do not think you are free man.
If the government can take your property, without paying just compensation, I do not think you are a free man.
I just saw a TV commercial in which the CEO of Sprint said this is the freest couintry in the world. Most Americans probably believe that. But, is it really ?
How many liberals in the U.S went to prison for calling George W. Bush a racist, a nazi, a warmonger, a retard, etc ? The answer is a big fat ZERO. Last time I checked liberals like Kanye West and Oliver Stone did not get arrested for their anti-Bush comments.
In Venezuela if somebody openly bashes Hugo Chvez or if in Iran somebody openly bashes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad they would be put in prison in a heartbeat.
Another person's right to bear arms is someone else having their drug dealer kid shot by a rival gang.
Washington DC for example has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, yet why is it that they still have one of the highest murder rates in the country.
Gun control laws do nothing to stop drug dealers from illegally buying guns through the black market. All it does is take away guns from tax paying law abiding citizens. And tax paying law abiding citizens who own guns are not the ones responsible for the extremely high murder rate in cities like DC, New Orleans, Compton, Oakland, Detroit, etc.
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