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Where, may I ask, did you flee to?
by Artistry121 14y ago
Where, may I ask, did you flee to?
- dangrossman 14y agoGermany, according to his profile.
- rayiner 14y agoFleeing the US to Europe to escape restrictions on civil liberties... Head = asplode.
- sneak 14y agoThe US is a lot more free on paper, but has very little liberty in practice. Germany is, in theory, a lot less free - however I have never been anywhere else that allows many of the sorts of things that are commonplace here. I could go into many details but suffice it to say there is an interesting inverse symmetry to be found. One handy example: asking a bank for €5000 in cash doesn't even raise an eyebrow here.
- CWuestefeld 14y ago* The US is a lot more free on paper, but has very little liberty in practice. Germany is, in theory, a lot less free - however I have never been anywhere else that allows many of the sorts of things that are commonplace here.* I have a similar understanding of China, based on several limited visits and conversations with extended family and friends there. They've got a lot of restriction in theory, but in practice, as long as you leave the oligarchy alone, they keep to themselves and ignore you.
- loevborg 14y agoThat comparison is fanciful! Germany has the rule of law and its liberty (or lack thereof) is nothing like China's.
- jebblue 14y agoGiven your comments about starting a violent revolution I guess it's not too surprising you moved to the one country that tried twice in the last 100 years to take over the world.
- krichman 14y agoI was under the impression that Germany already fucked up once, so who would know better than they why it's wrong to be a police state?
- sneak 14y agoI think is that the current government is less than 100 years old and hasn't had time to become evil and comtrolling yet. If being a police state was enough to educate people why being a police state is bad, America wouldn't have this problem. :)
- tptacek 14y agoMy only experience of interacting with law enforcement in Germany is having my bags searched in a drug enforcement sweep on a train.
- tptacek 14y agoAfter 20 minutes of reading, I'm even more convinced of what my intuition said earlier this morning: the civil rights situation throughout large portions of Europe is much worse than it is in the US. Compare the first N articles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic to the Bill of Rights. Then read about the "sect filters" the German government(!) drafted to enable employers to deny jobs to people in a disfavored religion.