The world’s least-free country

Backwoods Home Magazine ^ | Sept/Oct 2002 | John Silveira

[watcher1]

Yes, it bothers me! Any comments before this gets pulled?

[watcher1]

Freedom bump

[alisasny]

Why would this get pulled, it makes sense. However most 'un-free' countries have an instant death penatly unlike USA.

I also find many of our laws are to produce quality of life and law and order so to speak.

Yes there are some bad and downright stupid laws but many of them make sense.

[watcher1]

Posts critical of the status quo seem to have a short life on FR lately

[E Rocc]

I can think of any number of nations the writer should consider living in before talking about how "un-free" we are. Cuba, North Korea, and Iraq leap to mind.

One of the major differences: In those places you can't even talk about how un-free the nation is, let alone publish your comments or try to do anything about it.

-Eric

[SkyRat]

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
[The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.]
-- Tacitus, Annals III 27

[JoeSixPack1]

We have plenty of personal freedom. Good thing we have enough politically correct laws to keep those freedoms in check. (/sarcasm)

[Marauder]

One difference, as pointed out to me by a friend from Venezuela, is that other countries' laws state what the people can do.

Here, we're told what we cannot do.

[Sacajaweau]

You have a strange mindset. We have a legislative branch at both the Federal and State government level. Freedom within our nation has always had limitations based on moral priciples. We'd have sheer chaos with unbridled freedom.

I always like the Stop light analogy. Take all the Stop lights down in your city and see what happens!!!

Sac

[Moby Grape]

Try living in Cuba or North Korea, then post such mindless drivel.

[watcher1]

I can think of any number of nations the writer should consider living in before talking about how "un-free" we are. Cuba, North Korea, and Iraq leap to mind

Comparing the USA to north korea or iraq isn't fair.
I think we should compare ourselves to how we were ( say 50 or 100 years ago) to how we are now.

All our freedoms have been eroded and continue to be eroded with no end in sight.

[elcaudillo]

Yes. Somehow all that has transpired to enslave us, subsequent to the intelligent actions on the part of our founding fathers, must be eradicated.

The only way I can see to do that is to have a massive reenactment of the Boston Tea Party. However, it shouldn't be bales of tea thrown into the harbor; rather it should be the members of both houses of congress with few exceptions.

Blanket amnesty programs for illegal aliens lards the voting ranks (thereby diluting our ranks) with grateful, uneducated fools who wouldn't know how to go about changing their oppresive countries, so they come here to aid those bent on enslaving us.

Rushmo said a few months ago that the serfs in Merrie Olde England were taxed by their lords at a much smaller rate than we are to pay for this burgeoning elite political and bureaucratic class. We know we need to do something, but perhaps are waiting for that patriot to rise up and found the political party that will drive a wedge between the existing two thereby syphoning off the votes that are needed to take over.

[watcher1]

Try living in Cuba or North Korea, then post such mindless drivel.

Are you for real? See my #11

[Flyer]

the country with the most laws—not just today, but in all of history is...geez Louise, it’s the United States

And by coincidence, we are also the country with the most lawyers, many of them making the laws.

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[FairWitness]

The basis for a significant fraction of our laws is "fairness". The trouble is, no matter how many laws are passed, outcomes always seem to come out skewed (see the concurrent thread: Merit-Based Scholarships Critiqued) so we must pass more laws to assure equal outcomes for all.

[watcher1]

We don't need more laws. We need Less laws

[2sheep]

>Yes, it bothers me! Any comments before this gets pulled?

If it is truly a free country, why would this get pulled?

[FairWitness]

You may have missed the (invisible) sarcasm tag at the end of my post.

[watcher1]

why would this get pulled?

LOL

[mountaineer]

We not only have the most laws in all of history, but we also turn out more new laws and regulations

I agree there are far too many laws, but would suggest that a lot of that verbiage exists for the sake of clarity, that is, to comply with the constitutional requirements that laws not be vague, not violate due process, etc. In most other countries, I doubt that's a big concern.