Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!newspeer1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jim User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.french Subject: Re: Is the USA a free country? References: <1141993335.158978.317180@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <0001HW.C037A18B000CA55BF0284550@family.alibis.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:33:53 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.94.231.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net 1142220833 130.94.231.25 (Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:33:53 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:33:53 GMT Organization: NTT/VERIO Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:162173 Ned Kelly wrote: > > > Mark Donovan wrote: > >> He didn't say the USA is the least free country in the world. He just >> said USA is not as free as people used to think it is. >> It's definitely not as free as it could and should be. >> >> Mark > > > This is a common mistake of Americans. Many of them think that they are > the only civilised country in the world and everyone else lives in mud > huts. > Why do you people all act superior in your home countries, but when you move to the USA, in less than a generation you become close-minded monolingual jackasses like the rest of us?