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[*] posted on 7-1-2010 at 04:22 PM


I enjoyed reading motoged's ongoing posts, mostly for the reason that too many citizens of the US have inflated heads that are way too big. I don't think anyone can consider Canada anything but a first world country. As was posted on another thread, Canada and Canadians are responsible for many advances to our society as a whole. Maybe it's time for the US to become a bit more introspective and deal with some of its issues. After all, given all the worldwide financial crap, it just doesn't make sense that the US figures they can maintain a superior position within the panoply of nations just because they have more firepower.

Sadly, although it took until just recently, and by a Supreme Court that has been packed by conservatives for the past few decades, the second amendment thingy, while always subject to spirited debate, was still officially a matter of a "well regulated militia". People don't seem to recall that when this amendment was written, there was no official national army. Nor were
there police and other law enforcement agencies around. Right wing folks are quick to embrace the idea that the second amendment was design to give virtually every Tom, Dick, and Harry (note they were male and white), the right to bear arms any time and any place. This obviously ignores the phrase "well regulated militia". All that said, i have always found explicit irony in the idea that the nation that proclaims itself to be the land of the free, is home to people who appear to fundamentally not trust each other.
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