Rob Burns wrote:
"We enjoy personal rights and freedom of
movement unsurpassed by any other nation in the world."
Robert, above is my quote of your original statement. I suppose I am
incorrect. You must not have meant, as I read: We (U.S. Citizens) enjoy
personal rights and freedom of movement (anywhere one would wish to move)
unsurpassed by any other nation in the world.
I guess I didn't understand that you meant only those people ". . .filling
up the old jalopy with gas and going anywhere in the US"
Your _original_ statement certainly didn't indicate you meant only within
the United States. Robert, I have been swayed to your way of thinking!
I believe that a US citizen has unsurpassed, by any other nationality,
rights of movement within the United States.
And a Swiss citizen has _more_ freedom of movement within Switzerland, and a
German within Germany.
I'm so glad we spent this time working out that statement of such banal
self-evidence.
The question is: What about real freedom of movement? Going anywhere one
wishes to travel. This is what I questioned. I continue to question how an
American can believe your original statement, as I read it, which many
Americans do believe.
M. Bachofen
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