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2) America loves freedom & democracy.
Only in America and only to the extent required by the shackles of it's constitution. elsewhere its OK so long as it doesnt get in the way of American policy. Which means its sort of OK in the rest of the West and a bad idea in the 3rd World since people have shown themselves to be more concerned with themselves and their own rights and wealth rather than the needs of America. Dictators can be bought cheaply to hold the peasants in line.

3) America loves free speeach
Yea as long as you dont try and distribute code that threatens profits or question corporate motives (unbrand america). As long as you dont express support Al Queda. As long as you arent a black fighting slavery, or of Japanese descent in WW2 or an arab post 9/11. As long as you dont criticise America. Did you ever read the Phillip K. Dicks novel "what if America was really the Bad Guy?" ?

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Fuck you American mods - mark me as a troll: a large proportion of the World believes this. But I'm a troll because these views are heresy. Mark me '-1' so noone else sees my heretical thoughts.

In the land of the free press most of the free press (bar CNN) wont accept advertising thats unpatriotic or critical of corporate greed. They use bogus excuses about it being too discursive and issue orientated - crap like that.

Fact is corporate America gets its butt kissed by the press it gives advertising money to; not surprising but certainly hypocritical.
And the press doesnt want to piss off an unelected thug like Bush, well OK, elected by the Supreme Court if not the people.

http://www.unbrandamerica.org

Put aside your petty differences. Celebrate your freedom: July 4.

http://unbrandamerica.org/home.html

In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere . . . on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas pumps and supermarket shelves. Open a magazine or newspaper - it's there. It's on TV. It stains the logos and smears the nerve centers of the world's biggest corporations.

This is the mark of the people who don't approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who don't want countries "liberated" without UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado shoved down their throats.

This is the mark of the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the environment, who want the International Criminal Court for greater justice, who want a world where all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of weapons of mass destruction.

This is our pledge:

Because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
Because consumerism has become our national religion,
Because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom,
And because patriotism now means agreeing with the president,
I pledge to do my duty . . . and take my country back.

http://unbrandamerica.org/home.html

In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere . . . on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas pumps and supermarket shelves. Open a magazine or newspaper - it's there. It's on TV. It stains the logos and smears the nerve centers of the world's biggest corporations.

This is the mark of the people who don't approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who don't want countries "liberated" without UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado shoved down their throats.

This is the mark of the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the environment, who want the International Criminal Court for greater justice, who want a world where all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of weapons of mass destruction.

This is our pledge:

Because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
Because consumerism has become our national religion,
Because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom,
And because patriotism now means agreeing with the president,
I pledge to do my duty . . . and take my country back.

http://unbrandamerica.org/home.html

In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere . . . on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas pumps and supermarket shelves. Open a magazine or newspaper - it's there. It's on TV. It stains the logos and smears the nerve centers of the world's biggest corporations.

This is the mark of the people who don't approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who don't want countries "liberated" without UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado shoved down their throats.

This is the mark of the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the environment, who want the International Criminal Court for greater justice, who want a world where all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of weapons of mass destruction.

This is our pledge:

Because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
Because consumerism has become our national religion,
Because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom,
And because patriotism now means agreeing with the president,
I pledge to do my duty . . . and take my country back.