eh, the only reason that they have "free speech" in america is because long ago they realized that if you keep the dog on a short leash he might bite the hand of the master, but give him a little bit of room and then he's content to sniff and piss in the bushes. In other words, the government realized that if you allow dissenting opinion, while brutally surpressing any dissenting action, then eventually people will be content merely to speak out while not actually doing anything about it, and it really makes the job of upholding the status qou a lot easier. Plus having all these ambigious liberties gives them the right to do pretty much anything that they want to and not have it be against the law.
In other countries people don't live as luxuriously as americans, which is a huge bit of the reason why americans are generally pretty apathetic about everything. Also contary to popular belief, those countries don't have nearly the ammount of propaganda that we are exposed to. The reason that it seems like they do is because they only have the most simple and straight-forward propaganda that seems so obvious, because they are laking in the myriad of subtle and subconscious forms that we take for granted. think about it, how much information do you receive everyday? probably hundreds of messages, and that's not even the stuff that you activley search for. take into account books, movies, TV, the internet, it's massive compared to BFE where they don't even have a newspaper and they reecive thier information via relatives in the cities.
What I'm trying to get at is that in other places people who talk about overthrowing the government actively try to do so, and often succeed, so it's neccesary for the state to impose harhser restrictions on it's citizens if it wants to get away with robbing them the same way that ours does.
In other countries people don't live as luxuriously as americans, which is a huge bit of the reason why americans are generally pretty apathetic about everything. Also contary to popular belief, those countries don't have nearly the ammount of propaganda that we are exposed to. The reason that it seems like they do is because they only have the most simple and straight-forward propaganda that seems so obvious, because they are laking in the myriad of subtle and subconscious forms that we take for granted. think about it, how much information do you receive everyday? probably hundreds of messages, and that's not even the stuff that you activley search for. take into account books, movies, TV, the internet, it's massive compared to BFE where they don't even have a newspaper and they reecive thier information via relatives in the cities.
What I'm trying to get at is that in other places people who talk about overthrowing the government actively try to do so, and often succeed, so it's neccesary for the state to impose harhser restrictions on it's citizens if it wants to get away with robbing them the same way that ours does.
We must continue to fight to keep our rights as given to us. Our first amendment rights are our most valuable of assets my friend. To turn a blind eye to the trickle of things being "slowly" taken from us will be our ruin. Nothing I can't think of has ever been attacked/challenged more than those rights. Its an ongoing battle that we must continue to stop the stifling attempts made on us dead in its tracks. 
