Comments on: Everyday Freedom http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/posts/freedom_china_vs_us/ Casual Software Encounters Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Allen http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/posts/freedom_china_vs_us/comment-page-1/#comment-13614 Dan Allen Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:20:14 +0000 http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/?p=153#comment-13614 I just had a discussion in this precise topic with a coworker of mine from China. The truth is, we are freer in the United States, and I am not going to question the on-paper facts. But what I can say is that we are far less free than what the writers of the constitution had intended. And that, of course, assumes that what they had intended is what we want. My general conclusion about the whole topic is that we are not nearly free enough to really brag about it. I just had a discussion in this precise topic with a coworker of mine from China. The truth is, we are freer in the United States, and I am not going to question the on-paper facts. But what I can say is that we are far less free than what the writers of the constitution had intended. And that, of course, assumes that what they had intended is what we want. My general conclusion about the whole topic is that we are not nearly free enough to really brag about it.

]]> By: Marco http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/posts/freedom_china_vs_us/comment-page-1/#comment-13601 Marco Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:37:26 +0000 http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/?p=153#comment-13601 Yeah ... I'm not buying this. What totalitarian regimes look like is based on how threatened they feel by their population base. China's different than cold war Russia or Saddam's Iraq. It doesn't change the nature of the beast though, just the polish on the chrome. -Marco Yeah … I’m not buying this. What totalitarian regimes look like is based on how threatened they feel by their population base. China’s different than cold war Russia or Saddam’s Iraq.

It doesn’t change the nature of the beast though, just the polish on the chrome.

-Marco

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