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Originally Posted by STEED
Sounds like the US has got a bunch of monkeys
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Did that constant smelly american patriotism you often read and hear about everywhere on the internet and at tv ever made you have any doubt about that ?
The Strauss Kahn affair alone sums up the frailty of the country and its judicial system. To sum up things shortly, the conclusion of what we've got to hear at tv in here is "well, yes, as you can see, the american legal system doesn't look like ours at all. Different, yes, but we should not consider it inferior to ours, after all that guy got the best lawyers there, so let's see what's going to happen. We should not underestimate the united states of America, even though they've been showing him at tv surrounded by cops just as if he was guilty. We are just not used to make anything look cinematic, they are used to make everything look as if it came out of an Hollywood movie".
I've never supported the political movement that guy is part of. Plus he definitely is famous in here for being found deceiving his wife a certain number of times. But still, seeing his name and himself - one of the wealthiest persons in the country, purely and simply - being dragged through that mud the american media is - that made it all look like the greatest ass-kicking of all time - by a *cough* cleaning lady whose husband got involved in drug trafficking, without any presumption of innocence (that's supposed to be the right of every accused person) in the beginning, really makes me wonder about the legitimacy and lawfulness of the american judicial system and media. That woman has been no more than a tool in that affair, but still : that bast%rd went from the status of accused to the one of accuser in a matter of days, how incongruous is that ?!
Yet I'm sure someone will show up shortly just to say he's so proud of being
A(!)merican. Just let me say I'm ROFLing, and I'm not the only one.
I'm thankful to the united states though, I must admit.
I've never appreciated my country, I mean, never, especially when it comes to social inequalities, breach of moral standards, absence of ethics of the media, and the like. I only start appreciating it nowadays, now that I see what takes place on the other side of the Atlantic.