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The Death of Cities
Re: The Death of Cities
by theluckycountry » Sat 20 Sep 2025, 06:49:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'B')ecause just like the UK, he can be thrown into prison for criticizing his own government. That just leaves the US to criticize, because we DO have freedom of speech.
Can you name one Australian imprisoned for verbally criticizing the government? Just one?
And yes, you theoretically have freedom of speech, but like all the other laws encoded in the constitution they are meaningless if the government wants to lock you up.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')brams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the criminal arrests of several defendants under the Sedition Act of 1918...
The defendants had been arrested in 1919 for printing and distributing anti-war leaflets in New York City. After their conviction under the Sedition Act, they appealed on free speech grounds. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions under the clear and present danger standard, which allowed the suppression of certain types of speech in the public interest. Wiki
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ''')Citizenship won't save you': Free speech advocates say student arrests should worry all,
Columbia University Ph.D. student Ranjani Srinivasan was accused publicly by the Department of Homeland Security of being a terrorist sympathizer, with no evidence, when she got notice that her visa was revoked. She chose to leave.
"The First Amendment applies to people who are physically in the United States, regardless of their alienage, regardless of what country they were born in, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of their immigration status," Lee said. "By … saying that attending a protest makes one a threat to American foreign policy, the administration is admitting that the Constitution is getting in the way of the fight for democracy. Something is not right there."
Like most things in America, your free speech law is an illusion, the government can revoke it anytime they like. Right to bear arms
I can think of any number of restrictions on that depending where you live. Also a criminal conviction on record takes it away. You're cannon fodder for European wars is all you are. British subjects still, and you though you'd escaped 
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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Re: The Death of Cities
by AdamB » Sat 20 Sep 2025, 09:13:29
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', ' ')You're cannon fodder for European wars is all you are. British subjects still, and you though you'd escaped
A little sensitive to your own political cartoons are you? Certainly once FDR started ignoring Churchill about the prosecution of the war against your Nazi breathern whatever illusion that the Empire and America were on equal footing was already out the window.
Let me guess, you never were taught any history about your own ownership by the Brits to this very day because you dropped out before those classes in the 9th grade?
Scrape and bow you little toad.
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