Tim,
It sounds like your Dad is an honest cop and an admirable man. My hat goes off to him. The world can always use another honorable man.
Your inablility to discern I'm a lawyer speaks volumes about your powers of observation. First of all, I've stated it repeatedly, so it's no secret. In that capacity, I've often posted, (for what it's worth!), a legal perspective on issues that other members raise in various threads. More importantly, my approach to issues, analysis, debate, and discussion is so blatantly lawyer-like, it's hard to fathom how you couldn't immediately guess my profession.
I, on the other hand, had no such problem figuring you out. You read like an open book. You say you've "spent the last 20 years largely out of America so that no citizen would feel as though he/she lived in a police state?" Please!! Don't do me any favors. You've spent much of the last 20 years outside of the USA because you volunteered to go to other countries and kill strangers if your "superior" orders you to. That's your trip; don't lay that at my doorstep.
Your advice that I "go for it," if I "can think of a better place to live," is jingoistic rhetoric that adds nothing to the discussion. What next, "America, love it or leave it!"? I'm used to hearing these kind of comments from Americans who blindly support the USA without seeing it for what it is: a police state. I'm not going to rehash the entire discussion about what a police state is. Sufice it so say, CAG posted the American Heritage Dictionary definition of "police state" earlier in this discussion, and the definition fits squarely.
It is what it is.
Peace, Elton
It sounds like your Dad is an honest cop and an admirable man. My hat goes off to him. The world can always use another honorable man.
Your inablility to discern I'm a lawyer speaks volumes about your powers of observation. First of all, I've stated it repeatedly, so it's no secret. In that capacity, I've often posted, (for what it's worth!), a legal perspective on issues that other members raise in various threads. More importantly, my approach to issues, analysis, debate, and discussion is so blatantly lawyer-like, it's hard to fathom how you couldn't immediately guess my profession.
I, on the other hand, had no such problem figuring you out. You read like an open book. You say you've "spent the last 20 years largely out of America so that no citizen would feel as though he/she lived in a police state?" Please!! Don't do me any favors. You've spent much of the last 20 years outside of the USA because you volunteered to go to other countries and kill strangers if your "superior" orders you to. That's your trip; don't lay that at my doorstep.
Your advice that I "go for it," if I "can think of a better place to live," is jingoistic rhetoric that adds nothing to the discussion. What next, "America, love it or leave it!"? I'm used to hearing these kind of comments from Americans who blindly support the USA without seeing it for what it is: a police state. I'm not going to rehash the entire discussion about what a police state is. Sufice it so say, CAG posted the American Heritage Dictionary definition of "police state" earlier in this discussion, and the definition fits squarely.
It is what it is.
Peace, Elton
