>>>>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.

Ok, go to a public library and start picking books written by Marx et al, if you can find any.

Start a public debate about "why don't we have any atheists elected to high positions".

Try to have zero contact with the banks.

Try to do any transaction over $1000 without a middleman.