On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:46:44PM -0800, John Celio wrote: >>> >> I don't realy think anyone in the USA has any right to >>> call down any >>> >> country >>> >> in this manner. >>> > >>> > I was going to respond to the post in question, but I think it might >>> > be best to sit back and watch Bob W... >>> > >>> > ;-) >>> >>> Perhaps he'll put an extra l in his post to make up for the >>> one I'm missing. >>> >>> William Robb >>> >> >> Welll, helll. America hasn't entirely been the land of the free recently, >> and Britain isn't as supine as it looks, but it's certainly turning into a >> spineless nation of rollovers. > > You don't have to remind me of the shit that came from the last > administration, nor the fact that there is a large part of the American > population who are still racist or bigoted and get their bullshit turned > into law (*cough*Prop8*cough*cough*) from time to time, but I think we're > a lot better off than many other countries nonetheless. > > John
Well, that's only natural. People get so used to the habitual occurrences of their own country that they never evaluate them in the same way they do things from other countries. "That could never happen here!" can be a reassuring way of thinking. As to the relative freedoms in the UK vs. America - the UK has less of an issue with "Big Brother" surveillance - many city centres have full-time cameras, as does much public transport. On the other hand it's still newsworthy in England if the police kill an unarmed member of the public - something that is accepted as commonplace in the USA. The Oakland case Marnie referenced upthread is newsworthy because it looks as though there might actually be a real enquiry, not because somebody got killed. Personally I'd rather be photographed/filmed than shot (or tasered). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
