Quote from: FredericBastiat on September 29, 2011, 05:16:16 PM

Quote from: Hawker on September 29, 2011, 05:00:23 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/world/middleeast/bahrain-court-hands-down-harsh-sentences-to-doctors-and-protesters.html?ref=middleeast&pagewanted=print

Exactly the same apart from the oppression, torture, disappearance of opposition activists, killing of peaceful demonstrators and imprisonment of medics for treating injured civilians.

Really, grow up. Where do you live that compares to that?

Oppression: check (how many US laws can make us criminals, as opposed to before?). Torture: check (Guantanamo). Disappearance of opposition activists: check (kept on the low-down). Killing of peaceful demonstrators: check (oops, it was just an accident, righhhht...). Imprisonment of medics: check (FDA going after alternative medicine doctors)

Now I know the above isn't as blatant as dictatorial regimes but pain is still pain, dead is still dead, despite the delivery method. It's always a means to an end. The only thing the US cares about is it's reputation, whereas other dictatorships only care about maintaining their position of power for as long as possible before the next coup d'etat.

If you ever open your eyes and we're able to move off of these ridiuclous topics like you handing out nukes to terrorists, you'll realize that most of us are very against the exact actions you've just described.

But in the world of color (not your black/white alternative universe), the fact that the system is flawed doesn't mean it needs to be totally cast out. The fact that current first-world government is mostly corrupt, doesn't mean that government in and of itself is an inherently bad concept.

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