America the Unfree

I’m always a little nervous and feel a little vulnerable when I post a piece like the one I wrote today. I’m not sure why; all the e-mail I’ve gotten on it has been positive, and in fact, I have not gotten a decent piece of hate mail in many months.

I’ve gotten a number of good responses, but this (so far) has been the best:

I’ve lived and worked in a totalitarian dictatorship and trust me, for the vast majority of people – it ain’t much different than here.

With one exception – in the totalitarian dictatorship when one was stopped by traffic police, people had no compulsion about arguing with the cop, sometimes in a dignified manner, sometimes in a less than dignified manner. No one ever felt that arguing with a traffic cop would result in anything other than blowing off some steam.

I sincerely believe in the totalitarian dictatorship; the regime would have never even contemplated subjecting its citizens to the TSA.

Friends of mine who grew up in other totalitarian dictatorships also describe similar levels of non-control. We have all come to the same conclusion – Americans are the most docile people in the world, willing to believe anything told to them by a corrupt leadership.

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