[Brandon]

Originally Posted by The_Rorschach

Thought is Free, Speech is restricted. A Navy kid I served with got billed eight hundred for having a Swatstika bumper sticker on his Benz not too long ago. The charges had something to do with Hate Speech or some such. I afraid I didn't take notes because I wasn't overly interested by it, but the point isn't any less valid for the stupidty of the parties involved.

You speak of equality for the sexes, but really, how equal are they? Maybe its my Existentialist inclination showing, but the equality is superficial at best. What is the measuring stick? Physical expectations? Cerebral capacity? Pay checks and occupations?

Equality under the law.

These are all very nice ideas, I suppose, but the rights you are championing aren't even held dear in the country which inititially espoused them. They are used and abused by individuals in order to further selfish aims.

So anything less than perfection is crap? You're really not giving the U.S. enough credit.

If you want to turn Iraq into a beaurocratic bedlam of litigation and materialism, power to you, but I fancy we'd be doing far more harm than leaving them be.

Because abject poverty is much more preferable than facing the HORRORS of CAPITALISM and DEMOCRACY!