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Old 05-01-2008, 15:52 PM   #16 (permalink)
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No homilies please!

No obfuscation either!


Lead me to the site in China where you speak more freely than here.

We can have the Colonel translate the same.

I am sure you can speak most freely when you toe the party line!! That is no surprise to me either!!

You are like the Russian, who was told that Clinton could be criticised in America by Americans without being put in jail and so there was total freedom of speech in the US.

The Russian replied that he too had this freedom of speech - he too could criticise Clinton in Russia, without being put in jail either!!
In this world there isn't abusolute free!
Everycountry has it's problem!
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Old 05-01-2008, 16:08 PM   #17 (permalink)
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In this world there isn't abusolute free!
Everycountry has it's problem!
True.

But the difference is that one can get his bile out of his system in a democracy, but not so in a totalitarian regime!
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Old 05-05-2008, 19:39 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Truly the greatest advantage of a democratic system. We elect stupid people, criminals, and the fataly flawed, but when they screw up by the numbers, we can vote them out again and at least have a chance to repair the damage, without having to fight a war (of course, the Confederacy had some real issues when the majority was seen trampling the rights of the minority...). No system is perfect, but I like having one where there is a peaceful process for the transfer of power to satisfy the will of the common man. A small group of men in a dark room deciding the fate of a nation only works as long as those men are very smart, very noble, and pretty lucky in their choices due to the uncertaintly of world events. Ask the Soviets.
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