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ShadowWolf: When, exactly, was America a bastiuon of freedom in any more than name? As I recall, we were pretty much the last nation in the world to abolish slavery- and while de jure segregation is no longer legal nor in existence here, de facto most certainly is, and America is world-famous for its racial discrimination. Nowhere else do people have such problems getting along, short of nations engaging in outright civil war and genocide. America is the last Western nation to maintain an imperialistic policy of interfering in other nations' local difficulties, which are none of our business, and few other industrialized Western nations retain such puritanical and draconian policies against victimless crimes- 200,000 people in America are jailed for marijuana violations alone, for smoking a plant no more harmful than tobacco, and considerably less than alcohol. America is also famous for overthrowing local governments to install despotic tyrants who will serve our interests- in fact, as has been much publicized, a few of those murderous despots we put in power have come back to bite us in the ass, which is the reason we dislike them. We're possibly the least free industrialized Western nation in the world, and yet we never tire of harping on how great we are.