America 2012:
The US has a gigantic trade deficit with the biggest dictatorship in the world, their "marts" are full with stuff made there.
People who think they are patriots by putting up a China-made flag sticker on their car, twitter the news on their icrap device - made in factories with work conditions so bad that the workers there start a riot:
Freedom is at stake because a school band in onehorsetown, US performs a little play.
I could only laugh at the irony dripping from it, if it wasn't so damned sad.
Hey Yubba: you want to stand up for freedom? Stop supporting a country where re-education camps exist, look where you buy your stuff. That's a little baby step which requires as few effort as posting on a board in the web. And stand up for the freedom of others - be happy to live in a country where freedom of academia and freedom of art exist. The last time I checked, they were still there. You also have the right to report the school to the police, if they did something illegal. Defend all these rights, as well as the right to have a different opinion.
I'll close my rant with a little quote:
Quote:
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"Freedom only for government supporters, only for the members of a party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom. Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently, to voice their opinion. Not because of the fanaticism of justice, but because all the vitalizing, wholesome, and purifying in political freedom depends on this characteristic, and its effects cease to work when freedom becomes a privilege."
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Rosa Luxemburg - evil Commie bitch, murdered by people who didn't like her opinion