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Re: USA most strongly supports right to critize Religion Quote: Originally Posted by Sparrow What it really means is that you've acquiesced the right to protect yourself and your family to government entities, and placed absolute trust in a body of authority. Was it really worth the trade; privacy for correctness, liberty for bureaucracy, freedom for safety? Just as the original natives traded away their heritage of lands for colourful...

The exact quotation is: Quote: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. The source is his reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the governor, November 11, 1755. It later became the motto of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, c. 1759. Note the qualifiers in the above quote....

Quote: Crachir ~I could go on - you can have your US freedoms - I prefer those in Canada. But what has it got you? When you clip away the extremes you're only left with mediocrity. Yes, at times Americans do horrible things to each other, and worse even to strangers from places we can't even locate on a map. But when the historians write the final draft of what it was like to be an American, it will at least be an interesting read....

Shouldn't you be calling them the Canadian branch of your family? (Or would they cut you off...?) I also have relatives in Canada; one first cousin once removed owns/runs a small adventure tourism business in British Columbia, which sounds anything but boring.

If all their branches are in such poor locations as the one in Milton Keynes I'm not surprised they are in trouble. Borders set to fall into administration today

Re: USA most strongly supports right to critize Religion Quote: Originally Posted by pyan Homicide in the USA, 2007, per 100,000 inhabitants = 5.9 Homicide in Canada, 2007, per 100,000 inhabitants = 1.9 Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin. Or Thomas Jeffferson. It was one of those old dudes. In any case-- This thread needs to calm down a bit. Nobody is confused, and nobody is taking anyones liberties. This...

Not in the UK. I can think of a few TV presenters we can send them, though.

The buck stops with us in that we elected those responsible for the decision to go to war, but once we elected them, we had no control over their actions. To paraphrase Rousseau, we are free only one day every five years. Would press criticism have prevented the US Government from going to war? Would public opinion? It didn't here. Here, there was a fair degree of high-profile criticism of the case for war. And in February 2003, anywhere...

Re: USA most strongly supports right to critize Religion Quote: Originally Posted by The Judge What horrifies me, is that even in the US and UK, it would appear that over 10% of the respondents apparently think it is right to imprison or otherwise punish those who do criticise a religion. (Though I appreciate some of these could be 'don't knows', apathy and ignorance on the subject is nearly as alarming.) You can't libel...

Re: USA most strongly supports right to critize Religion Quote: Originally Posted by Drachir Its an interesting survey, but a list of the nations surveyed show that it is rather incomplete. The article below shows which nations were surveyed and although the US is at the top it is only at the top of those surveyed. One wonders how nations like Sweden, Norway, Canada, and Finland would rate. According to a WorldPublicOpinion.Org survey of more...