blackjack21 wrote:Plenty, I'm sure. My point is that you brag about police officers with no guns and everything being ultra fair in the UK while you bash the US constantly. The Tommy Robinson case is an example of what would not happen in the US, because the courts can muzzle the free speech of the entire public. They can only sequester people involved in a case so that limits to freedom are absolutely minimized.
There was a little more to that case, and that's why there was an acquittal. Rushing someone with a gun after they tell you to stop is not a good idea.
I have family from the UK. It's nowhere near as elective a place as you are implying. If you need a quadruple bypass, you can't just say, "I'll be in Thursday afternoon after my golf game..." pretty much anywhere in the world.
Not since ObamaCare. You can sign up in the waiting room. There's no more pre-existing condition clause. So you can show up with a gun shot and sign up for Medicaid on the spot.
It seems very desirable to people from cultures where neither men nor women vote, women are second class citizens, and archaic religious views are not only practiced but enforced as a matter of law. I prefer not to live under a combination of Sharia and leftist group think.
You just did that in your previous comment. Not uttering the words 'great civilization' doesn't exempt you from that criticism. Someone just needs to write a book called "The Ugly European" so that it becomes clearer to you that you are every bit as smug as Americans.
I've been to the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. I haven't been to Norway. I didn't mention Italy, Spain, or Switzerland, as I suspect they may be too far South for your tastes.
Indeed. They just made him an historical figure.
Actually, while I grew up in the UK, I live and go to school in Australia. So I have experience of both countries.
I have never bragged that the UK (or Australia) is better than any other developed society - I just stated what happens in those countries. Whether it's better or worse is up to the reader.
And my mum and dad have friends in the USA, so I was there when I was little, but I don't claim to know much about it. My posts are based on what I have read on the net and in books. And I don't bash the USA except when some Americans claim it is better than anywhere else, and bang on about your 'freedoms'.
And you didn't answer any of the points I raised - you just answered what you thought I was saying.
From what I read in a load of reports - the Japanese student didn't rush anyone - simply took one or two steps into the front yard. Where he was shot dead - there were no hidden justifications.
And the elective thing with universal healthcare is what happens in Australia - where there is an Aussie version of the NHS, but the doctors are all private - they are just paid by the government.
And no matter what you sign up for, your ERs are not free, and that was my point.
And yes, you may have been to lots more countries than me, but a tourist visit doesn't mean you know all about those countries.
When we lived in the UK, we went to Noway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Finland, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Monaco. And since we moved to Australia, we have been to Singapore, Malaysia, Bali, Hong Kong, Vietnam and China. But all these were just visits of a few days - maybe a week, and I know almost nothing about those countries. I saw nice hotel rooms, and went on guided tours of historical things and pretty scenery. But I have no idea of how those people live their lives.
So sorry, I'm used to flag waving Americans getting all nationalistic, but that doesn't help any discussion. There's lots of good things about your society, but you are not as exceptional as you like to think, and you are not 'the greatest' in everything - no country is.