Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:45:51 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 00:19 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:44:38PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [...] > > I have been very dismayed at how FOSS has been used as a vehicle to > > promote anti-american attitudes into our own culture. It's sad. I have > > lived in > > all these places and the only place where people have guaranteed rights > > as individuals and true freedom is America. > > "The only place!" Are you just trying to provoke? Or can you tell me
Obviously.
> what freedoms and rights I lack? I live in a democracy, I vote, I > have freedom of speech and press, I can leave if I'm not satisified anyway. > I also have the freedom of going wherever I want, any time of day, without risk.
The last sentence needs to be stressed.
> If you wonder why some people have an anti-american attitude, try listening to > what they say. It is usually about foreign policies, environmental problems, > or the actions of large America-based multinational corporations.
Or the arrogance to even only think that the whole world must act as the US administration wishes.
> > I was in Germany in the late > > 1970's and earlt 1980's when the Bater-Meinhoffs were killing Americans > > Criminals, which were eventually caught. Seems to me America has enough > of their own criminals killing americans?
Remember the last 3-5 years IIRC about typical tourist robberies in Florida? Probably the US don't want any visitors from Europe anymore (and with the current list of to-be-delivered data before one may enter the so called "land of the free" I certainly wait for that period to get over).
> > in the streets and the Grune-Gehfahr (Green Party) was having > > demonstrations burning effigies of Uncle Sam in the Hauptewache District > > Excercising their freedom of speech? It'd be sad if they couldn't. > If you love freedom of speech, then you have to put up with people > saying all sorts of things. Even things you don't like.
The so called "freedom of speech" in the so called "land of the free" can be seen if agents of 3-letter agencies walk into universities to "avoid" talks on certain topics.
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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