One thing I will agree with you on is that freedom is not an American thing. If it were I could go out on my back porch and smoke a joint without being arrested for making an adult choice. If it were a terminally-ill American could choose to be put out of their misery by being euthanized. If America were a free country then we wouldn't have the F.B.I. looking into anyones' choices of what to check out from the library, looking into what books people buy from bookstores and arresting anyone they feel like arresting by simply declaring them to be an "enemy combatant". If it were then there would be no-one here being denied due process of law on the government's whim, no-one being tortured and no-one being shipped elsewhere to be tortured. If it were then the Bush administration wouldn't be flouting Habeus Corpus rights and trying to abolish them altogether. If it were a free country then someone could express a dissenting opinion without being immediately branded a "traitor" or a "terrorist sympathizer". If America was a free country then we would have a free press, asking the hard questions, like:
"Mr. President, just who was the gay prostitute/fake reporter James Guckert a.k.a. "Jeff Gannon" coming to see all those times he's recorded as having visited the White House when there was no press conference?"
or, "Mr. President, just why do you feel the need to have a fake reporter paid to ask Scott McClellan softball questions in press conferences? Are your policies that indefensible? (yes obviously)".
or how about: "Mr. President, how did you and your Secret Service chief know so surely that on the morning of 9/11 you were not a possible target so as to allow you to stay in that well-publicized location (Booker elementary school) for almost an hour after Card told you a second plane had hit the WTC?? Mr. President, do you realize that this means you had to have known the 9/11 plans beforehand??"
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