>>>Can you update me... since when is the US a free country ??
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>>The country per se is free, and so is the air in it. Everything else, you pay.
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>My point is, as outlined before, is that the term "Free" is very subjective. What does freedom mean? The trend i've seen the last couple of years is that freedom is increasingly under pressure, esspecially under the "Patriot Act".
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You may be confusing freedom and privacy. Privacy is under attack, I agree with you there. But we (Americans) are still free to do or say about anything we want to.