@Frank Apisa,
The thing is Frank, the phrase 'Over here in America,' is incredibly condescending. There are some posters on A2K who seek to wrap themselves in the American flag at every opportunity, to cast those of us who do not have American citizenship as being opposed to American values. Those who support gun ownership call us serfs, and try to point out our lack of 'freedom' all the time. As if we'd all want to own AK47s once we really understood what freedom really was.
There are those who seem to think that your constitution, bill of rights, various amendments, separation of church and state, et al give you a right to wag your finger and lecture us as if we're a bunch of savages living in some sort of feudal autocracy.
What you don't realise is that most of us are very much aware of how you go about things. Your global dominance of television means that around 50% of what's shown on our channels is American. Hardly a day goes by when we don't see something American. Last night I watched two episodes of
South Park, one of which was all about Snowden, with Butters taking people to the DMV to confess their sins. When was the last time you saw something that was British, and up to date?
Monty Python, Benny Hill and
Keeping Up Appearances don't count.
There are considerably more Americans ignorant of how we go about things in Europe than the other way round. I'm spoken to many posters, quite aware and informed in other matters, who don't know the difference between Britain, England and the UK.
And my criticism of the treatment of Snowden is not confined to America. Britain is as guilty as America, and if it were an MI5 agent who had leaked the documents and was avoiding trial in the UK my comments would not be any different.
