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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
in the states they are not handcuffed to 'yuman rights' like we are.......so they can punish, how they see fit...and if it deters others from doing the same thing, then it works.
Over here, we have bowed to the desires and whims of the bleeding heart liberals for decades. That isn't to say that it is too late to change..but to change...you have to want that change enough to fight for it.
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I can't agree with this ... they can't "punish [as] they see fit". They are bound by the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, and, more recently, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legal and civil rights of every US citizen are more than well protected by law. In fact, they have all the rights and freedoms that you have in the UK. What they don't have is some outside agency like the EU calling more and more of the shots. What complicates things in the US ... or seems to complicate things if you don't understand the system ... it that they are the United States of America, and those States, like Canadian Provinces, have a degree of autonomy that some in the world find hard to understand.