What makes you think the U.S. is a free country?

Question

What is it that you think you're more free to do than people in Britain, Canada, Australia, France, etc.?

Answer 1

Well, I think we are free.

I'm not sure I would have said that we were more free
than your list. Recently I would have said less, but
occasionally more.

We do have one uncommon freedom that I think is
actually, after 200 odd years, a very bad thing: Our
Constitutional 2nd amendment makes our country
have major problems with violent crimes with guns.

However, it does make us more free. More free to die
at the hand of an overzealous relative, more free to
die in a hail of bullets in a drug lord shootout.

Rah.

Answer 2

It is a Free Country, When did you stop believing that. We
still don't have a Socialist Govt. Australia is also a Free
Country.Our Friends in Britain do the Best they can, but they
have a lot of shackles. France forget about it. They are controlled by the Muslin's . Canada , well what can I say
they give asylum to our cowards who run away from the
war.

Answer 3

Free to voluntarily give up rights and be arrested without cause and held indefinitely, by mistake. Maybe even tortured without apology or compensation. Lucky if they are not killed
during the targeting or process of soliciting a "confession".

Guantanimo, Cuba is the national dungeon.

Also, spied on by local and national police and the USA government, observed and monitored without notice. USA is a nation of morons led by a warmonger buffoon clinging to a fictional past and willing to do practically anything to anyone out of fear, greed and ignorance. The "war on terror" has revealed the veneer of decency and civilization in the USA.

Bush plays the pipe and the lemmings so far have walked in goosestep formation.

Answer 4

England is more free than the USA. the USA has far to many rules and regulations if you were caught underage drinking in the UK you would not be sent to prison for 6 months like you are in the USA.the USA also has a strange way of deciding what you can do at a certain age some places you can drive a car at 15 who would let a 15year old behind the wheel of a car? no 15 year old is mature enough be in control of a car you also have to carry id wherever you go in the USA you don't even have freedom of speech in the USA anymore

Answer 5

Not much. I have to work, pay triple taxes, It's a free country for all illegal immigrants that our president allows in the US to take over our country.

What is free in the U.S??? Beside the right to vote for people that promise the US a great affordable life only before elections.

Answer 6

Well, last time I checked, we're not paying huge taxes to fund a bloated government-provided medical system, we can still own guns, we have no state religion, we have an implied right to be private citizens in our Constitution (read the Ninth Amendment, and if it doesn't protect the right of privacy, it isn't worth the paper it's printed on) and we still have a nominal freedom to speak our minds in a public forum.

Not that there aren't too many people on both sides of the aisle who would like to see many of those freedoms go away.

Answer 7

Where do all most all of the free speech sites get created?
What country has the most diverse number of view points and goals?
Which country is most likely to switch or remove a politician from power?
Which country has the most religions, not just in specific regions, but spread throughout?
Which country has the most ethnic groups?
Which country has more people from all over the world traveling to live there?
Which country has newspapers and newservices (not all of them, but many) that reflect extreme views of all sorts to those which try to show all views?
Which country is willing to look bad to those who don't like freedom, spend billions, risk our troops repeatedly, all to ensure that other countries have the opportunity to be free as well?

Does that help?
Should I add more? So many of our allies do some of these things. We are not "better" because we do so much. We want others to join us, even surpass us (we'll follow in YOUR wake, quite happily). Freedom is an ideal that U.S. Americans (remember that Canadians, Mexicans, Bolivians, etc. are all Americans) want for everyone, and lay no claim to inventing.

It belongs to everyone.

We're so free that we even allow some of our own citizens to hate freedom or be utterly confused by it. Live and let live.

Answer 8

You are right. Slowly the backward evolution to enslave this country by erroding the system and gradually taking peice at a time of the rights and freedoms of the people of the United States by the people belonging to the rich class of this country. Can we stop it? Yes. What happens if we do not? As our children grow tired of working for 40% of their income and adhering to the unfair rules, labor practices and no rights keeping them in servitude and paying taxes, on top of taxes on top of taxes and watching their families starve will invite the rich to an event resembling a tea party that freed an oppressed people and gave them a new form of government of democracy with a constitution and bill of rights that told them who was in charge, We the people, by the people for the people. That is the concept that will save the decline to prevent our children from having to fight for the same things our forefathers left us as a result of their desire to do better for their families.

Answer 9

There's not very much difference between the US and those you mentioned except perhaps for economics. Business is simply less regulated in the US than it is in any of the aforementioned countries.....you also get to keep more of the money you make in the US.
The Beatles' song "Taxman" references "there's one for you, nineteen for me"...seeing that at the time in 1966 they were only able to keep 5% of their income.
ps---if you don't think the US is "free enough", then you're probably an ANARCHIST.

Answer 10

We can still preach the whole Bible,can't be done in Canada.
A soup kitchen can serve the food it has ,not in France you must offer food that does not conflict with some ones religion or you can feed no one.
We are free to own fire arms and hunt, can't do that in Australia.
Let's not even get into Britain.

Answer 11

The truth is that the larger the population becomes, the less freedoms we all have. Bottom line is, chaos in all forms will be deterred by more laws. Unfortunately, that is the way it is. It really doesn't matter where we live or whether we find it acceptable. Terrorism is making all of this more apparent in the rapid loss of personal rights in the interest of our protection. The question is, how far will it go?