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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 07:42 PM EDT |
If a country is only giving certain rights to it's citizens, it
doesn't believe they are rights, it believes they are privileges. And any
privilege can be taken away.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 03:10 AM EDT |
I think the assurances that people's rights haven't been
violated - even if true, isn't any assurance to people
living in or citizens of the US's allies around the world
and of independent and neutral nations around the world.
US laws they had no power in making, charges of treason
which they have no power to challenge, and and punishable
for things that are not crimes within their jurisdiction.
The US can also carry out at will industrial espionage to
help US companies unfairly beat competitors in those so
called friendly countries, and can snoop on private
conversations of foreign politicians or bureaucrats in order
to allow action such as creating scandals to get them
removed from US interests.
Does all this sound familiar? At some point in the recent
past, we in the rest of the world have gone from being free
citizens of free countries, to being second class citizens
under US colonial rule - all of us potential Dot.Com's or
Assanges.
We were worrying about China as the dictatorial threat we
faced. The real threat it turns out is the US.
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