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Land of the free?

  • 01-03-2012 10:30am
    #1
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭


    So what exactly are you free to do in the US now?

    Protest? Nah!

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30678.htm

    Can you walk along minding your own business and go anywhere you want? You can try but if an agent of the state demands to know your business you'd better not get any ideas about ignoring him and continuing on your way or you WILL be arrested and most likely violently assaulted.

    Are you free to be secure about your belongings? Nope. No warrant needed to search your house or tap your phone/email.

    It seems this anti-protest legislation is the last nail in the coffin of freedom of speech/assembly.

    America has entered the twilight zone.


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  • #2
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,942 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Reading a book about J Edgar Hoover at the mo, don't think it was ever land of the free.


  • #3
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Any modern state executive arm such as the police can, if the political will inclines it, act in such a fashion description by the OP by creatively interpreting old laws. In the US, or in Russia, or Ireland. On the whole, I'd disagree with such tactics in a large majority of cases but this is the norm.


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