Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish
The Land of the Free — America has just been stripped of its favorite longstanding self-designation — the official title of ‘Land of the Free’ now belongs to its neighbor to the north, Canada.
In fact, the Legatum Institute’s 2015 Prosperity Index found Canadians experience the greatest personal freedom and general social tolerance of all 142 nations in the report — while the U.S. trailed behind in ninth place. But that’s only part of the story.
Regarding the feeling of safety and security, America fell two spots from last year’s embarrassing rank to 33rd on the list — landing literally just ahead of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
According to Foreign Policy’s Siobhán O’Grady:
“Americans fear more for their safety each day than people living in Egypt, Bangladesh, and Sudan — countries that suffer from regular terrorist attacks, civil unrest, and war.
“Just what exactly Americans have to be so scared about isn’t exactly clear [… ] And while 17 percent had property stolen in 2014, that was still below the global average of 17.5 percent.”
O’Grady’s tongue-in-cheek query sharply derides Americans’ unfortunate, gullible tendencies to believe whatever subject or object the government deems must be the target for fear. In many ways, the Legatum report proves fear-mongering works.
If all of this weren’t sufficient to prove the freedom in which Americans ostensibly bask remains little more than illusion, the U.S. stood aloneamong Western nations with high levels of State-sponsored violence — right in line with Saudi Arabia and the Ukraine. Legatum suggested recent uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore were the reason for this startling comparison, though the general rise in police violence coupled with an astonishing lack of accountability shouldn’t be ignored.
Canada’s actual tolerance and freedom could be a lesson for U.S. politicians who insist on touting the tired Land of the Free moniker — especially now that it no longer applies.
http://theantimedia.org/why-americas-land-of-the-free-title-was-just-revoked-2/
America has lost its place as a free and independent nation a long time ago. And when the zionist occupied govt is done bleeding us dry we will be a third world nation thrown into chaos and despair that we have never seen or experienced and left to die. Sadly, the majority STILL won’t know or care to know who is behind it and why.
No doubt America is extremely unfree, but Canada is even worse. By no stretch of the imagination can Canada be considered a free country. Among other reasons, guns are much more strictly regulated there than in the US, and there are criminal penalties there for politically incorrect speech.
What makes the US government uniquely evil is the central role it has played in the destruction of freedom in many foreign countries. It has played a leadership role in drug prohibition and the “War on Terror” from the beginning. And let’s not forget all the brutal puppet dictatorships the US has installed and/or supported.
FREE? Anyone crazy enough to claim we are free need to remember we lost ALL our freedoms in 1868. Took them this long (150+ years) to finally become obvious is all.
Canada is so free, you can be jailed for questioning the holocaust. Not that America is much better, but this is a BUNK study.
Just ask Ernst Zundel.