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+prince said:Which free rights?
Princess Alexandros XVII said:I hope you mean conscience, otherwise that statement is hilariously misinformed.
Princess Alexandros XVII said:Consciousness is awareness. People can still be conscious and violent, so... yeah, you're misinformed. Goodie.
+prince said:Sounds good Ashera but who are we all kidding? The human race is still in the baby stages of life, and have evil tendencies and animal instinct still, civilized but not enough to live in peace...
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/11/26/huntington-beach-bar-fights-to-save-sign-that-salutes-veterans/HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Veterans are rallying around a local bar whose owners say they have been ordered to removed a sign that salutes their service.
“Thank a veteran for your freedom!” says a large sign perched above Johnny’s Booze and Pool. Vets love it and make up a significant part of the establishment’s clientele.
“I love this place. The sign gives me the pride back that I lost … I struggled a lot when I first came back,” an Army vet told CBS2′s Stacey Butler.
But someone complained to the city about the sign, and now the bar’s owners say they’ve been ordered to take it down.
“We received a letter in the mail from the city stating that we have to remove it within two days or they were going to fine us, like, $940,” says co-owner John Marovic.
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/former_ole_miss_chancellor_tal.html“We can’t recruit against the Confederate flag.”
The controversy over the waving of the Confederate flag at Ole Miss football games – and the racist stereotype it perpetuated -- had been simmering for years, decades even.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/11/27/group-american-held-in-dubai-for-online-parody/November 27, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Woodbury family is fighting to get their son out of a prison in Abu Dhabi. He’s been living in Dubai for the last seven years working as a business consultant.
But 29-year-old Shezanne Cassim was put in prison because the government didn’t like a parody video he posted on YouTube.
His family says he made it with some friends as a spoof about young people in Dubai.
United Arab Emirates officials say it violates cybercrimes law and poses a threat to national security.
DrLeftover said:Anybody else catching a whiff of a double standard with our friend here?
Any society is made of double-standards...XD Since it's a "free one", everybody should be able to say anything they want without even having to care about that even (since they got the "freedom to protest" too (and they can say anything they want without fearing any repercussions from anyone else or anything else...least of all: their community, lol.) And that's "full freedom of speech", no?