To you dear friend from Central Europe ... How can you suggest that
we're negative about our Government? A lot of us are negative about
many things - and positive about others...

As for our feelings concerning our Government...

In this country if we don't like
them - we vote them out.

As the last election has shown.

Does it really matter if intelligence are accessing this forum? Personally, I wouldn't care if they were bugging my phone ... I am aware, however, many people would deplore such action ...

During the cold war, a number of communist newpapers were financed by the CIA. Now! - this was a way of gathering information on who, and what and why!

Yes, we now for our own collars; to be spied on by the police state. There is legislation in Briton and America trying criminalize thought. Since 9/11 its become worse. Every American president engaged in crimes against their constitution and other countries. One could say they learned from the mother country that colonized the English speaking mind. America is a Trojan Horse of the West, a failed society that suffers from social schizophrenia: a world forever built upon fractured psychologies and harsh realities of humanity's own making; a society in the throes of change driven by paranoia; yet unchanged in a social character that suffers itself with fear and greed. And fear and greed which caused democracies to fail and the paramiltary state to flourish has created an unethical impoverished world of desperate people driving governments into a race to secure scarce resources through the barrel of a gun.

Miami, Florida

Sorry Belly. I was a bit on edge the other day. It was hot and sticky and it could have been caffeine thuggery as well. I do apologise.

Thats ok Gibo no offense taken the bloke from the USA has a problem however.
The world has much that is wrong about it , we however, all of us try to do what we think is best.
Including country's, just think about how we would be treated if we spoke so freely in most middle east country's, or China.
We are spy-ed on, and it would be us who complained if a bomb went of and some one should have known but did nothing because of fears it would break some right of privacy law.