What goal posts? I was summarizing the constitution. If my summary is too vague for you, here is the actual text: > Congress shall make no law respecting an es

What goal posts? I was summarizing the constitution. If my summary is too vague for you, here is the actual text: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Then you spend the entire post ranting about what can really be summarized as: > In practice, your right is the Freedom to Scream Dumb Shit. Ok. Are you the arbiter of what is and is not "dumb shit"? Because as long as there is somebody deciding what is and is not dumb, then you don't have the capacity to speak your mind. You merely have the capacity to speak what everybody else is already thinking. And the point wasn't that much of Europe is some sort of third-world cesspool. It isn't. The point was that the US Constitution provides protections which are not clearly codified in the EU, beside the right to carry arms. Even though the EU is a modern invention, while the US Constitution is the oldest constitution still in use.