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Originally Posted by Adult Lounge - Brad
Don't kid yourself; freedom is slowly eroding in North America. Maybe the major freedoms are still in place (freedom of speech, assembly, etc.) but I would venture to guess that it will not be long until the public is fighting for those rights which are guaranteed to us.
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A number of these "major freedoms" have already been removed Brad - some very recently.
A couple more - a US citizen does not have the freedom to simply live elsewhere without his/her ass being chased by the IRS. Tax filings are required by law for all US citizens - whether they have lived in eg Europe or South Africa for 50 years. Only two/three extremist countries, including the US, don't offer freedom to their citizens to live where they like without accounting annually to their country of citizenship.
US children are now the only kids on the planet who don't have rights as defined under the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
The right of Privacy is virtually non-existant - the degree at which personal data can be accquired on any US citizen is a farce. Citizens can't simply travel where they wish without questions/monitoring/permission - eg Cuba.
Generally, tho depends on the treaty, US citizens are barred from legal recourse from treaties signed by their govt. Federal laws block options for a citizen to have his case heard under International Treaties ratified by the US govt.
It is ironic that the subject of this troll's thread is over Chavez not renewing the broadcasting license of RCTV and that is the basis of US troll whining, when, in reality, all Venezuelan citiizens have all the above rights - along with plenty more not mentioned
