On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:57:25 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-09-16 1:30 PM, wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:12:50 -0400, William > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:34:41 -0700 (PDT), Helpful person
>
>>> Well helpful person, perhaps you should go to Cuba and see what free
>>> speech gets you...better yet...try North Korea
>>>
>>>
>>> William
>>
>> Cuba is not too bad, the problem is to get the net is very expensive
>> for very little.
>
>For some reason, some Americans are under the impression that they
>actually have freedom of speech and that they are the only country that
>does. Offhand, I can't think of any western democracy that had anything
>like McCarthy's witch hunt on unAmerican activities.

If you dispassionately compare all first-world (and even some 2nd and
3rd world nations), the U.S has more in common with oppressive Islamic
nations than most others. By that I'm alluding to religious extremism,
incarceration rates and restrictions on true freedom of speech. Then
there are things like TSA, and the general thin-skinned over the top
reaction to any form of criticism. You just don't see that in many
other countries.