So you smelled it once (when?) and that is your proof that it always smells like a public restroom?
Except that the subordinate clause was placed in there intentionally.
I should hope so.
Extracting it alters what you intended to emphasize.
How about I tell you what I intended to emphasize in my writing, okay son? If you want to talk about how you misread a subordinate (nearly parenthetical) clause as emphasis, be my guest.
But that's still no basis to assume that he talked about selling his soul to the devil simply because he has a similar name to another guitar player who told that story.
But that's not the basis of my comment. It's a well-known (if apocryphal or mis-attributed) story that's part of American culture.
And why would that state fall somewhere on the same scale of liberty that colonies and dictatorships do?
You don't make much sense. You had earlier suggested the false dichotomy of colonial tyranny or dictatorial tyranny. A state that is neither colony nor dictatorship (such as the United States of America) proves that this dichotomy is a false one.
Incorrect. I indicated a dichotomy between a pure libertarian society and everything else. Among everything else, liberty can be ranked by degree. I then pointed out that many colonial powers in Africa afforded a significantly greater degree of liberty than their post-colonial successors.