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Spider Jerusalem

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6. In comparison to most of the rest of the world maybe

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 03:32 AM

Jun 2013

but..."where else are you going to move to?" Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands...(not that Canada/Australia/NZ/UK have clean hands in the whole surveillance thing; "Five Eyes" and all that). Other countries besides the US are liberal democracies that respect the rights of their citizens.

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