China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.
I’m allowed to criticize my government without being hauled off to fucking jail, how’s that for freedom?
The US arrests journalists for not revealing their sources that are damaging towards the US government. I wonder why they want to know those sources so badly? Maybe Julian Assange or Edward Snowden.
Not from the US? That’s ok!
Plenty of European countries also have laws on the books to deal with you harassing government officials. I’m not even going to bother going into the topic of how these same governments quiet the dissent of socialists to this day. Turns out, if they feel like your criticism is damaging enough, they CAN haul you off to fucking prison.
Say it louder and I’m sure that will make it true. YOU ARE FREE!
No you’re not! Even people outside of the US are hauled off to its torture camps for criticising its war crimes and atrocities. Ask Assange.