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USA USA USA
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Depends, we certainly have the most civil liberties but the Americans are better protected (in law at least theory and practise huh) against their governments, the Netherlands is a bit of a townshall-junta, you wouldn't believe how many rules there are for very small things, and it can get very childish and very random.
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So that it can pay for them instead of them paying for themselves???
On the topic, I don't believe that USA is the freest country in the world. I'd put many European countries ahead of US...
As Meneldil said, it's just a national myth... A myth that goes a long way back, when people were slaves and/or were treated as second class citizens because of their colour, ancestry, religion etc..
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