One must be careful in choosing slogans: "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" makes a stirring song and the idea sounds pretty good youtube.com Who wouldn't want to be American watching Whitney Houston sing that?
<amongst those that 'made it to america', you can well imagine the resulting ... hard to describe ... regret ... for lack of better word, especially when i compared usa to ... say ... freedom hong kong or antiseptic singapore, that which is right at the door step or not very far away>
"Land of the Free" does NOT mean it's free to go there. It is top dollar and "Welcome to the Hotel California" should be noted. youtube.com <Last thing I remember I was running for the door.
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. "Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave">
There are now more than a few people around the world who carefully avoid entering USA airspace. The long arm of the arbitrary law by making up rules aka "Calvinball" of the USA is reaching into places like NZ with Kim Dotcom of Megaupload now suffering the effect with a rearguard action by the NZ judiciary to maintain a facade of common law, habeas corpus, human rights but no property rights with assets confiscated en masse.
He is accused of providing a toll road for people to drive on, but of not checking in the boot, under the hood, in the passenger's pockets, in their laptops and iPhones for any possible copyright breaches. Governments who also own roads do not do such checking either, and certainly do not convict themselves if criminals are found to be using the public highways to move burgled tvs and purloined proceeds hither and yon.
I have provided the New Zealand police with all details and evidence of actual crime in the form of credit card fraud, with the criminal's name, address, photo, and so on, but they are 'too busy' to bother with it.
They are not too busy to harass motorists to gain cash for trivial offences, nor to have a lot of fun raiding Kim Dotcom with helicopters and machine guns at the behest of the FBI who illegally copied Megaupload's computers and took the information to the USA contrary to the judge's ruling. They should of course be charged with obstruction of justice and the other offences they committed.
It's appalling that the FBI illegally copied information expressly against the decision of a judge, but Megaupload and Kim Dotcom copied nothing illegally, yet Kim is held prisoner, but the FBI is free to commit more crime.
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