> You don't get these freedoms as a student. Exactly. As soon as money enters the picture, all civil liberties tends to be thrown out. Yet, students should IMH

> You don't get these freedoms as a student. Exactly. As soon as money enters the picture, all civil liberties tends to be thrown out. Yet, students should IMHO be encouraged to exercise their freedom of speech and assembly. How do you teach a society democracy if not through activities like this? And this is reflected in the low voter turnout. > I actually do think that the American civil liberties are quite strong. I can go protest in front of a government building with an ISIS flag with no (legal) repercussions if I want to. Using this as an example of "strong" freedom is so sad. Really. That should be a basic requirement for any civilized society. Yet, as another poster mentioned, it's probably not even true.