Quote Originally Posted by mkemse View Post
Yes our system has it faults and always will, but our system has worked fairly well say except for 2004 since 1776, no other country on earth that I can think of, possibly outside of England,Canada and Alaska offers the chance and opportunity we do to allow anyone one to run, speak openly about issues and critizes their current administraTION WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING JAILED
try using some of our technics, runnig adds, speaking your mind on the opposition in Russa, China, Koera ect andsee what happens, probably free room and board for a while
Again I thank everyone who replied to this post, her's to 2008 and an onslaught of mindless TV ads
I can think of plenty of Washington-controlled dictatorships elsewhere in the world where one can not speak their mind...Suharto's Indonesia, Pinochet's Chile, and Somoza's Nicaragua are just a few of the many examples. The fact that you've been less tyrannical than places like the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China to the people within your own borders merely made it easier for you to get away with your crimes broad than it did for those superpowers. I am a civil libertarian, I am a secularist, and I am a social democrat. I am disgusted by what tyrants in Washington, Beijing, Moscow, the Vatican, and the Middle East have done to our world...Everything they have built for themselves has broken the backs of other nations and peoples.

Who, for instance, was funding and arming the Nepal's feudal and theocratic monarchy, a country where the nobles and the royal family lived better than Bill Gates well the vast majority of people have always lived in grinding poverty? The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the People's Republic of China did, that's fucking who! Why does the U.S. believe that pro-American Islamist wackos are better for the people of Afghanistan than their anti-American predecessors were. Go to www.rawa.org to learn the truth about Afghanistan: The Americans there now, the Soviets and the Brits who were there in the past, and the Taliban sympathisers who still run half of the country side now sure as fuck won't! Fuck the global superpowers and fuck the tyranny of Abrahamic mythology.