CreepyPirate wrote:
I'm betting I could send an email to China or russia and I'd be fine n dandy and there the big bads! So i hear at least!
I can and in fact do send lots of threatning/insulting emails to Kim Jong-il just because i like the idea of him jumping up and down crying and cursing. I've yet to have North Korea ban me from visiting! In fact I'm going there for my holidays next year.
Send a threatning email to the British PM (if you can figure out who he is cause I've no idea) if you find yourself banned from visiting the UK and expressing your opinion freely I'll happily admit I'm wrong, pay you a million pounds and give you my first born child.
In fact fly over here. Get a big old sign saying "England sucks *** and your all a bunch of pricks" and while I'm sure you'll get the **** kicked out of you at some point you wont get banned from the country, more than likely you'll be able to press charges against the **** kickers and get some justice! Sweet justice mmm.
I can safely make that bet because i know for all the flaws I live in a free country. An actual free country. Where your free to express your opinion. No matter who you are. Even spotty faced teenagers. The fact you pick and choose whos entitled to freedom of speech and who isn't is a pretty funny thing. You have to ask yourself if they try to silence a teenager over a silly email what else are they keeping from you?
Does it make sense to give rights to just anybody who happens to cross your border? Why even have citizenship? Why not just form a global country? Then we could all have the same rights and do whatever we want wherever we want without having to worry about the government coming after us. That's all I'm really hearing out of your mouth. If you want "free speech" everywhere, than globalize the world into a massive country. But the fact remains that while countries exist and citizenship is defined, then there is nothing to say that you should be treated like a citizen while you are over here. In fact, if you look at a US passport, it states right at the very front "The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby
requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection." Notice there how it's a request and not a guaranteed right that your are going to be treated like a citizen in a foreign country. Sure, Creepy, you can be anywhere and say whatever you **** well please. But when you are a foreigner in America and say something, it's not like you are entitled to rights. If I was in any other country, I wouldn't expect to have the same rights as the citizens of that country because I am not a citizen of that country obviously. So regardless what you think, the law is the law. The US is an actual free country, just not for every Joe Blow that decides to come across the border and isn't a citizen yet. Or am I missing something?
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