Posted on 04/17/2013 3:34:08 AM PDT by vannrox
As soon as “R” is working so hard to eradicate itself it looks more like a classic One Party Dictatorship.
Sorry about the HTML errors. THe quotation marks are rendered as funny characters as this...(”). Please don’t flame. It’s been a while since I really gave a good posting, and I’m a bit rusty.
My computer keeps switching back and forth from Chinese and English and thus it was a bit difficult to compile up. I know that there are errors and that maybe this will anger some people. I’m just basically pretty distraught at what is going on in the USA. I see a president who actually thinks that the federal Government is a Democracy... Who thinks that a 14% unemployment rate is a sign of progress, and who wants to start yet another endless war in Asia.
Nothing ever changes...
More especially, it cannot be believed that the large slaveholding States regarded them as included in the word citizens, or would have consented to a Constitution which might compel them to receive them in that character from another State. For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own safety.This was what the rights of free citizens were conceived to include before the Civil War.It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport [i.e. with no requirement to show government picture ID], and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went[i.e. carry with no need for license of any form]. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.
It is impossible, it would seem, to believe that the great men of the slaveholding States, who took so large a share in framing the Constitution of the United States and exercised so much influence in procuring its adoption, could have been so forgetful or regardless of their own safety and the safety of those who trusted and confided in them.
What about China’s one child rule and local party leaders who enforce it. What about China’s strict controls over the Internet? What about due process in China. I agree the U.S. is less free and the government passes laws that apply to us but not them, but China more free? Not believable. We the people should insist that any law congress passes should apply to them as well.
Fascism rules the day in America.
It’s pretty much a one party rule. There are a few in DC that are working to change things but the fact that some call themselves either Republican or Democrat is mere window dressing to create a differentiation to market themselves and pull in dollars.
Other than the illusion of a difference they are all statists of varying degrees.
I stopped reading right here:
“Refuse to show ID.
In China you can do it, and no one will bat an eye.”
WHAT???
Also, glancing down, I have a completely different interpretation of the meaning of the Ninth Amendment.
You read too much propaganda. Most of the Chinese people I know have 3 kids. The one-child rule is a rule of taxation. You are taxed depending on the number of children you have.
If the first child is a girl, you can have a second child without paying a tax. The next child you have to pay a tax equal to 1.5% of your income. A child after that, the tax raises to 5%.
China is a Communist single party government. It is not free. But, on a day to day basis it IS freer than the USA is.
The Internet blocks Facebook because the Chinese government does not want the USA government to have the information posted on facebook (routinely uploaded to NSA servers). Same with u-tube. It is different than the USA, and I miss many things about the USA.
But do NOT sit there, as a person who has never visited China, and tell me that the USA is freer. IT IS NOT.
Today I chewed a betel nut. Cost me about 60 cents. Illegal in the USA. I am going to eat dinner at a restaurant and have a beer and smoke some cigarettes there. You can’t do that in the USA.
I’m a wild and crazy guy. When I ride in a car, I don’t put on my seatbelt. You can’t do that in your land of the free, can you? After dinner, I’m going out to play snooker at the local bowling alley. I won’t be carded or asked to see my age. Can’t do that in the USA.
My point is that Freedom is a day to day event. You either experience a free life or you don’t. That is my point.
I live in China and I have three kids. What about the single-baby rule? Two weeks ago I went to Guangdong and hunted deer using a full automatic AK-47. You can’t do that in the USA. You don’t know what you are talking about. You just repeat the mindless nonsense printed in American media.
Open up your eyes, and listen to what I am talking about. You don’t believe me. Fine. Live your fantasy. Many Germans thought Hitler was fantastic, and paid the price for their blindness.
China is NOT NOT NOT free. But, my point is that China is freer than the USA on many fundamental levels.
Bump
True you will not be asked to show your ID. The only time you are asked to show your ID is for a Residency check, or upon entering the country. If you don’t show your ID then, other things happen.
My point is day to day activities. Try going one entire week without showing your ID in the USA. Try it. you cannot.
You can interpret the amendments differently than I do. Fine. I am happy that you believe that the USA is a wonderful and free country. Enjoy your freedom. Oh yes, you DID pay your income tax didn’t you?..?
Just figuring this out?
My point is simple; Safety is not Freedom. And, the only ONLY document in the USA that protects Freedom is the Bill of Rights. I believe that it is not being protected and cherished as it should. This upsets me.
I contend that Americans have been so programmed by the news media, and so accustomed to living without freedom that they don’t even know what it is.
Freedom is not clean. It is messy, ugly and smells. But true freedom is what causes and inspires people, families and nations to greatness. Freedom and liberty is valuable. It needs to be appreciated, treasured and honored. Not ignored or permitted to wane away to nothing. It has to be fought for, protected and defended.
In the last election, NO ONE talked about freedom. Instead they offered plans for more laws, and more taxes, and more benefits. they offered promises of how they would change the country to make it greater. But none of them talked about Freedom. Not one. That is the problem that I lament.
that is why I wrote this controversial article.
I can believe that on a day to day basis, some aspects of Chinese life are freer than some aspects of the U.S. I also think everybody on this forum is well aware of the degredations of our freedoms - that’s not news. Not here, anyway.
I would also state that there is almost no economic freedom in China, to move from one class to another. And the need to be well connected to government apparatchiks is even more chronic in China than the U.S, though we are fast moving in that direction. Again, few on FR find this surprising.
Strange comment. On the surface, you can go a week. And certainly you can go much longer than a week without showing it to a gov't authority. But there is a bigger question: showing an ID is a straw test for "freedom" or "liberty" in general.
The last time I needed to show my ID was in 2011 - to get a new driver's license.
Only one party, The Big Government Party
Two branches:
Democrat - Practice what they preach
Republican - Preach like moderates, govern like democrats
This is incorrect. The single biggest difference between a dictator and the ordinary magistrates was that a dictator was NOT liable to lawsuit for misuse of power after leaving office. All other magistrates were.
Very true, and I'm afraid your analysis is correct.
Someone posted film footage (color) of VJ Day in Hawaii. There were all kinds of folks driving around without seatbelts, people piled on top of moving cars, etc. All I could think while watching that footage is that, today, those people would be ticketed and/or arrested en mass for violating any number of "for your own good" laws.
Pathetic what we've become.
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