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Originally Posted by Joe Obenberger
Well, check out which countries have jailed men for merely expressing their opinions about history in recent decades.
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How about members of the American Communist Party jailed in the 40s and 50s?
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In the most unselfish act in recorded history, this nation invaded Europe in 1944, took down Fascism, left behind tens of thousands of dead young men, and left tens of thousands of others as cripples, and then rebuilt western Europe. We created democracies in our wake.
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This is absolutely ridiculous. The contribution of the US to the defeat of Germany and Japan was great, but it was not even remotely unselfish, let alone the most unselfish act in recorded history, a statement so laughable you can't possibly be serious.
Britain and France declaring war on Germany when it invaded a country on the other side of Europe was unselfish. Britain remaining at war with the most powerful and dangerous tyranny in history, alone, even when Hitler wanted to make peace or ally with Britain, was unselfish.
The policy of the USA was to stand idly by while the Nazis, with whom American companies were happily doing business, crushed democratic countries across Europe, and then screw Britain out of its gold and other assets to such a monumental extent that Britain only paid off its financial debt to the US about 5 years ago.
How unselfish of us.
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Countries that had no tradition of freedom obtained them with American blood. Look at Japan. Take a look at today's freedoms in Germany and Austria.
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WTF are you talking about? Germany was a democracy under the Weimar Republic. Whereas after WWII half of it was a dictatorship, thanks to the world's only nuclear superpower agreeing to sell out half of Europe to a Soviet tyrant.
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We stood guard on Freedom's Frontier for fifty years and gave hope to Poles and Hungarians and others. Czech the record. We did it for one and only one reason: that men might be free.
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I can't believe anyone could write that and actually seriously mean it. I know what the Czechs and Hungarians did in 1968 and 1956. What did we do?
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Yes, please look at the actuality.
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Please do. Because whatever Hollywood movie you're getting your material from is embarrassing.
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I don't want to hear about the "exceptions" that some cynics here find limited and unimportant - that's what's been said about restrictions on speech since the British were castrating priests.
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You seem to have a huge axe to grind about Britain and seem obsessed with the British 'castrating priests'. When was this, exactly?