Strider you might think you can see the whole picture because you are at an outside point, but trust me America is still everything it once represented and if that was only Freedom of speech we wouldn't have had so many people come here looking for a better life.... sure we have had our share of difficulties and scandals but when something goes wrong we try to deal with it...

every country has it's shares of scandals and if not it is for a simple fact that it does not have access to the amount of obscuritys America does

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