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I agree that there are troubling abuses of police power in the U.S. but you can still say whatever you want about George Washington in public.
by cageface 16y ago
I agree that there are troubling abuses of police power in the U.S. but you can still say whatever you want about George Washington in public.
- tokenadult 16y agoI've seen some pretty outrageous things said about Barack Obama, the current President, in public, and the people who have said those things are free to say them another day. Similarly, I heard a lot of people say very outrageous things about George W. Bush, the previous president, and those people are still free to urge other people to agree with them in decrying that president. I lived during my twenties for three years in an actual dictatorship (which has since democratized). The situation here in the United States, as bad as it has recently been, is nothing at all like the situation in Russia today, or indeed like Russia any time in my lifetime. I know plenty of Russian (and Chinese) immigrants who didn't learn to breathe easily about expressing opinions about the government until they had been here quite a while.