The United States has a long history of hypocrisy. The citizens of the nation are told they have the rights given to them by the highest law, the constitution of the United States and yet time and time again history has proven this to be wrong. Let me just compile a short list of events that show how hypocritical and shitty the United States has been throughout it's short history. [u][b]NOT ABOLISHING SLAVERY UNTIL 1865[/b][/u] This is seriously outrageous. The country was founded on the idea that all men were created equal and yet people were legally considered property. To put this in perspective let me just name of a few places that had abolished slavery before the United States: -blam!-ing Mexico Russia England France Uruguay I could go on..... Seriously. The United States was one of the last countries in the world to officially abolish slavery. [b][u]VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH[/u][/b] Back when WW1 was going on congress needed away to shut up people who were against the war so they made Espionage act. They quickly started abusing this bill and started locking up political opponents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917 [b][u]JAPANESE INTERMENT CAMPS[/u][/b] So back in WWII a bunch of Japanese-Americans lived on the west cost of the country. Most of these people were second generation or 3rd generation Americans. Meaning that they had no ties with the Japanese mainland. The United States locked these people in camps and stole their property and even sold it. Yes. They robbed them and locked them in a prison camp for looking Japanese. These were American citizens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans [b][u]LACK OF WOMENS SUFFRAGE[/u][/b] Again. The country was founded on the idea that all people are created equal and that the government is for the people and by the people and yet 50% of the population were locked out of voting on a national level until the 1920's just because of sex alone!!!! [b][u]LEGAL SEGREGATION[/u][/b] Again. "All men are created equal" yet people with black skin have to be treated as second class citizens. It took a decade of rioting, union, and lobbing to final give these people the social rights this country claims to give to everyone. [b][u] THE NSA[/u][/b] This organization is collecting every piece of meta data it can on all American citizens against the legal protection of privacy the constitution gives us. [b][u]GITMO[/u][/b] This prison holds inmates that haven't even been charged with a crime which violates some of the oldest laws in the western world. Habeas Corpus was passed by the English government back in 1697 and is a legal right of all United States citizens. However, apparently it's fine if it's just some random person in the world. This is a violation of international law actually. --------------------------------------------------- I could just go on but the conclusion is clear. The United States is a hypocritical piece of shit. Rights proclaimed are not and never have been actually respected. At times legal citizens were locked up in prison camps and had their property stolen because of race. The United States has never and never will be "The land of the free." It's the land of hypocrisy.