Is This the America You Want to Live In

[Daverz]

So you're picking a convenient and rather arbitrary timetable?

I'll go with 46 years (Voting Rights Act of 1965).

[The new erato]

Something terrible lies at the heart of New Orleans - a rampant, widespread and apparently uncontrollable brutality on the part of its police force and its prison service. The horrors of its criminal justice system from decades before Hurricane Katrina and up to now lie somewhere between, with little exaggeration, Candide and Stalin's Gulags.

http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2011/04/orleans-city-jail-police

That the police force in New Orleans is "a significant threat to the safety of the public", as the DoJ says, is obvious. But the same problems can be seen all over the South, from Miami to Mississippi to Alabama; and the same nationwide, according to Paul Craig Roberts, a former editor of the Wall Street Journal and former assistant secretary to the treasury under Ronald Reagan, who wrote recently: "Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists as the greatest threat to the American public."

[Philoctetes]

I'll go with 46 years (Voting Rights Act of 1965).

Strangely the date I would go with predates that one by more than a century.

[Bulldog]

Yes, this is the America I want and do live in.

[snyprrr]

Germany/1930s = USA/Today

[The new erato]

Germany/1930s = USA/Today

Meaning that they both have a head of state born outside the country??? 

[Philoctetes]

Meaning that they both have a head of state born outside the country??? 

[Grazioso]

Germany/1930s = USA/Today

Someone needs to retake their history courses 

[Szykneij]

Yes, this is the America I want and do live in.

Me, too.     

[Bulldog]

Me, too.     

I'm glad to hear that somebody else also likes living in the U.S.  It gets tiresome reading the irrational bitching about our country.

[Sid]

There are a lot of silly outdated laws out there. But the hope is that eventually with changes in things like social values, the legislatures reflect these changes and update or repeal the laws.

I mean there was a time in Australia when women (of course, not men) had to wear bathing costumes covering them from head to toe on our beautiful beaches. There were actually "bathing costume police" out there enforcing these laws which were made by local councils. Of course with the arrival of the two piece bikini around the middle of the century, these laws were changed. But these things also come full circle. Now we have some of the swimming pools in Western Sydney having special sessions booked were Muslim women of the local community can bathe without the (what they think of as) the destructive gazes of men. Surely this is a kind of apartheid, of these people bringing their values & customs here and forcing the local culture - which has moved on - to regress and adapt to their needs. So there are still silly ways of doing things - but they might not be necessarily enshrined in law...

[Josquin des Prez]

I mean there was a time in Australia when women (of course, not men)

Its comments like this that makes liberalism sound like a mental disorder.

had to wear bathing costumes covering them from head to toe on our beautiful beaches.

A sensible institution on all accounts. After all, wouldn't want society to turn into a pornographic sex obsessed cesspool where women are "free" to indulge into their inner slut. Opps, too late.

[The new erato]

After all, wouldn't want society to turn into a pornographic sex obsessed cesspool where women are "free" to indulge into their inner slut. Opps, too late.

Sounds like a slut would do you a world of good.

[Josquin des Prez]

Sounds like a slut would do you a world of good.

Are you speaking from personal experience?

[The new erato]

Are you speaking from personal experience?

Well some people probably only can get sluts.........

[Daverz]

Frankly this whole forum strikes me as a bit slutty.

[DavidW]

Frankly this whole forum strikes me as a bit slutty.

Yeah gmg flashes their ads to just anyone that waltzes in.  tsk tsk

[The new erato]

Yeah gmg flashes their ads to just anyone that waltzes in.  tsk tsk

Not if you pay for it.

[Gurn Blanston]

Not if you pay for it.

What could be sluttier than paying for it?   

[The new erato]

What could be sluttier than paying for it?   

My point exactly.