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Re: Lets ban banning

Rogel — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:30:17 -0000

Force of habit, any of them will do.

Re: Lets ban banning

zoolish — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:25:24 -0000

How come Americans (yes, yes, I know where you're from) always pick of France and Germany? What's wrong with Sweden as an example? Iceland? Norway?

Re: Lets ban banning

Rogel — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:07:14 -0000

As the Ultimate Israeli politician Shimon Peres use the say : "Yes, and No"

I am writing about the society I'm living in. I am not intimately close to the French or German societies, but from the little that I'm reading they have their fare share of banning and intruding. However American, since their early history, has a tendency of imposing social standards. So yes America isn't as free as I thought in the past, but it isn't as oppressive as it might appear reading my humble blog.

Given the choice I would still prefer to live in the US compare to many places in the western world, with the exception of Israel which I consider home and Australia which seems to be the last western laissez-faire country.

and on completely different note, should I read from your comment that you are in the same side of the ocean as I?

Re: Lets ban banning

zoolish — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:39:44 -0000

Just to stir things up, don't you find it amusing that of all the terrible meddling governments out their, the so called representative of capitalism, small government, and personal freedom is, in many respects one the most intrusive? Where else is smoking such an obscenity? What other country presents the wonderfully paradoxical duality of having the most overweight population and, at the same time, coming up with the most restrictive ideas for policy?
In reference to your own writing some posts back, wouldn't it be fair to say that America really isn't what it seems? Not with regard to capitalism, and not with regards to freedom?
How unpatriotic of me to say so. Lucky for me it's not those good old sixties or I'd be burned on the cross (on my own lawn too). Oh, I just recalled, as a foreign citizen, I am allowed to be un-American, right? I mean, as long as I don't smoke, am not fat, and am not Muslim. That would probably still make me a communist (which isn't much different than a socialist to most Americans), but I can live with that...