Reply #35: Not so much to do with my personal feelings [View All]

The problem is that saying
America (Well, I don't start saying that already giving its own country the name of two continents is rather strange) is the best place on earth to live is the statement of superiority and of excluding all the other countries of this planet (and unless you haven't lived in all countries of this planet it is a statement of superiority without personal knowledge and experience). And if there is only one thing history can teach then it is that exactly all theses nations that had the impressions of being the best places to live that is the best nations on earth have committed unnumbered atrocities.
As I said in my last post: This is not supposed to be a personal comment on you. I don't know you. I just want to stress that you should be very careful with theses kind of statements.
And concerning your question. I didn't say that the US is facing a pre(apocalyptic fascist landscape. But what I can say is that the situation of cicil freedom and human rights is very much in danger to say the least.
The human rights are universal. Guantanamo is beyound a shadow of a doubt against human rights. And if once there is a whole in the human rights and one has created a new class of human beings called "Unlawful combattant" the way is paved to start doing whatever you like. And to finish just look at the draft of Patriot Act II that was leaked to the press in February 2003....