America: The Land Of The Punished, Credit-Unworthy, and Exposed

America is becoming the opposite of the Land of the Free

The freedom to protest is one of the most precious freedoms we have, though it is under attack even now. (Wikimedia)

We Americans have a lot of freedoms. We can say pretty much what we want, to whom we want, and how. We can protest and engage in civil disobedience. We can worship as we will (within reason). We can purchase a too-wide range of firearms (with inexcusably tragic results). We have marriage equality and legal protections for those in the LGBTQ community.

Any of the above were sufficient to have one sent to the Gulag in the old USSR, or to internment camps in China. Even not counting the insane ‘freedom’ enshrined by our constitution’s Second Amendment, very few nations have all the liberties we Americans enjoy.

But we’re not the Land of the Free. No, we’re far from it. And it’s not just our prison population.

An Undocumented Immigrant being arrested for breathing within America’s borders (Wikimedia)

Our Prison System: Home For Millions Of Americans

What do Venezuela, Turkey, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Belarus have in common? They’re all dictatorships rife with epic levels of corruption, right? Right.