Hi there,
I'm not actually a US citizen but a couple of points in this discussion piqued my interest..
- Is the patriot act the same thing as the thing in Quantananmo? As far as i can gather from the news, the place where people are interned is owned by the US military, it's not actually US governments soil. I'd appreciate if someone could correct that.
- On the little Gun control issue that developed in this discussion: someone said that if they didn't have guns they wouldn't have freedom.
Um. I live in Republic of Ireland, we don't have guns. Most of the police don't have guns. We have freedom. Oh wait. There is one part of ireland that the people do have guns in. Northern Ireland. Where people have been shooting each other for many years. Although it's not fair to say it's all the guns fault. Sometimes they use bombs. Are bobms constitutionally protected in the US?
The discussion on the patriot act in some ways reminds me of the internment laws they used to have in northern ireland, although they didn't call it such a pretty name. They simply locked up suspected terrorists with no trial. For years. I'm sure they did lock up some actual terrorists, and they only locked away a few dozen innocent men.
Anyway. Apologies for any errors in the above. I only learn things from movies and tv these days.
And finally on a completely different topic: are the french really as unpopular in america as trans-atlantic tv makes out? They helped you win your war of independance!
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Hi there, I'm not actually a US citizen but a couple of points in this discussion piqued my interest..
- Is the patriot act the same thing as the thing in Quantananmo? As far as i can gather from the news, the place where people are interned is owned by the US military, it's not actually US governments soil. I'd appreciate if someone could correct that.
- On the little Gun control issue that developed in this discussion: someone said that if they didn't have guns they wouldn't have freedom. Um. I live in Republic of Ireland, we don't have guns. Most of the police don't have guns. We have freedom. Oh wait. There is one part of ireland that the people do have guns in. Northern Ireland. Where people have been shooting each other for many years. Although it's not fair to say it's all the guns fault. Sometimes they use bombs. Are bobms constitutionally protected in the US?
The discussion on the patriot act in some ways reminds me of the internment laws they used to have in northern ireland, although they didn't call it such a pretty name. They simply locked up suspected terrorists with no trial. For years. I'm sure they did lock up some actual terrorists, and they only locked away a few dozen innocent men.
Anyway. Apologies for any errors in the above. I only learn things from movies and tv these days.
And finally on a completely different topic: are the french really as unpopular in america as trans-atlantic tv makes out? They helped you win your war of independance!