I'm getting out of here. It's not so much that I hate America, I just hate what America has become, and I want no part of it. I would renounce my US citizenship, but I found out that a US citizen is actually an employee of the United States, a British-owned corporation founded in 1878. Sovereign citizens are of the respective states. I'm a Texan, you're an Illinoisan, Virginian, New Mexican, whatever. Most people don't realize that, though.
Most people don't realize a lot of things, like how our entire government is out of our control. A lot of people do realize, but don't care as long as they can watch TV, drink beer, hook up over the internet, and buy a new car every couple of years. I can't fix it, so fuck it. I'm out. Where to go, though? My first thought, of course, was Canada. Canadians speak English like natives, and I wouldn't have much trouble blending in. There's the socialism and censorship, though.
I'm big on free speech. I say what I want, when I want, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. that doesn't mean I'm going to walk around talking smack all the time, but that's because I don't want to, not because anyone prevents me. You're just going to have to trust me. If anyone happens to be offended by anything I say... Well, that's tough. Say something back, or walk away, or hit me in the mouth, but you can't shut me up.
Canada is out of the question because they have laws restricting freedom of speech, press, and religion. The Bible and the Koran are both on the list of books banned in Canada. (I have been corrected by a reader [I have a reader!], the Bible and Koran are not banned - that was the wrong list -M) I'm neither Christian nor Muslim, but I reserve the right to change my mind at any time, without notice. I could give my life to Allah tomorrow. In Canada, it is illegal to publicly display an image of Mohammed. It is illegal to say "fag," or "nigger," or "nappy-headed ho's." Spare me your outrage. I'm not saying it's correct to say such things, I'm just saying it's not illegal. That's where it starts. Pass laws restricting "hate speech," and the Ministry of Information follows soon after.
If you don't want someone walking around saying "nappy-headed nigger fag ho" all the time, exercise your right to free speech, and lay down some derision. Peer pressure isn't just for getting your kids to smoke, you know. The influence of societal pressures will outweigh any statute, you just have to do it yourself, instead of asking the same government that has screwed up everything else to do it for you. Pussies.
Voltaire said "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." That was a long time ago, though. Most people nowadays are so desperate to stay alive they'll give whatever wealth they managed to accrue in their lifetimes to pharmaceutical companies before they die anyway. Few people, nowadays, would be willing to die for their right to do anything. That's why our rights are being violated on a daily basis. Die free or live as a slave? Let me think about it... I get to continue living, right? Can I have cable? Still thinking...
That's crap. Life as a slave is not a life worth living. Sorry, Canadians, but... Wait, I'm not sorry. Y'all are polite, though. Very well mannered. It strikes me as odd, though, that you can smoke pot on the steps of the Ministry of Health, but you can't read Huckleberry Finn.
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Too cold in Canada. Even with all the political / social / economic problems in America, I'd still rather live here. There's no where else to go that's even remotely better off. Since there's not much I can do to change the system (and frankly I wouldn't know what to change it to anyway) I guess I'll just have to try to live my life joyfully and to the best of my ability. I'd rather be who I am in this part of the world than someone else anywhere else.
6 billion people on this planet and I'm lucky enough to have been born right here in the USA, during this modern era, and surrounded by loving friends and family. And I get hugs daily, that helps. Not too shabby really. :)
You have lots of hugs coming when you visit. (Sorry to sap up your blog.)
Your thoughts, as another graduate of PSHS, are interesting enough that I actually read what you have to say, but apparently you did not read your linked references very thoroughly. Your link to books you think are banned in Canada is actually a link to: "This is an updated list of the titles that both made it to the OCLC Top 1000 list and have been banned according to the 4 volumes in the Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature series:". That Top 1000 list is the Canadian library system's list of books that every library should try to make available to borrowers, and the cross-sectioned list you link to are just ones that have been banned somewhere at some time in history for one of four reasons. That list has nothing to do with books that are actually banned in Canada. In reality, the Bible is banned in Saudi Arabia and a couple Communist countries, but most certainly not banned in Canada.
In addition, your link to the constitional law website describes limitations placed upon 'freedom of expression' in Canada such as: "The press does not, for example, enjoy immunity if they run a pedestrian down in pursuit of a new story under the guise of "freedom of the press". Nor is a violent attack on someone (however dramatic the attack may be) considered to be expression." We, in the USA, have similar restrictions upon our freedom of speech, most notably the Court's restrictions against assembly without a permit and against shouting 'Fire' without cause inside of a crowded establishment.
In summary, if you really would prefer living in Canada to living in the USA, you have nothing to fear from any restrictions upon freedom there that don't exist already here.
Fellow graduate? You flatter me. We could have a long talk. But you're absolutely right about one thing: I didn't read too far into either of those pages, because I was trying to demonstrate to others what I already knew, and I'm lazy as hell. Try this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, or this one. As far as not having any more restrictions in Canada than here in the States, that's why I want to leave the States. Thanks for reading. I didn't think anyone saw this thing.
Did you know there's a preview button on this thing? Learn something new every day, I guess.
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