> Am 06 Jul 17  11:24:06 schrob BOB ACKLEY an GERHARD STRANGAR zum Thema 
> 
> 
> BA> Unfortunately, this "most free country on earth"
> 
> This pretty much depnds on what you want to see as a freedom. I remember a
> comic with a 2*2 matrix where a guy from the Middle East and one from
the West
> meet other guys from the Middle East and from the West. The guy from
the middle
> east presents his 5 wifes and the guy from the West presents his
husband. You
> can guess where the reaction were "nice" and "what a pervert". But the
fun part
> is that both sides are being liberal, just to something completely
different.
> 
> For you, it's a free country if you can walk around with your gun in
the park,
> for me it's a free country if I can walk through the park in the middle
of the
> night without even needing to think of self-defense.

You can't do that in this country whether you're armed or not.  About the
only way to safely walk down the streets in some of our cities is to walk
with an escort of at least a platoon of heavily armed infantry.

 And what might by even
> crazier to you: Kids at the age of 16 can just buy a crate of beer all
alone at
> the supermarket and then drink it in the park. And by beer I mean 5-6
percent
> of alcohol.

I've been saying for decades that Europeans have a much more rational
approach to alcohol that the government in this country.

 And you can sunbathe naked in the park without offending anyone and
> by naked I don't mean topless, but without any clothes.

Again, I've been saying for decades that if the US ever adopted a sane
attitude toward the human body and sex the 'filthy' magazines, web sites
and strip clubs would go broke.  And, of course, politicians and
preachers would have to find something else to shout about.  Probably
thirty years ago somebody did a study that determined that the incidence
of sex crimes in nudist colonies was far below that of the general public.