My brother and his family just moved to Singapore where safety is extremely important and they give up certain rights to maintain that safety. I am in the process of studying how they have no crime and poor behavior is checked swiftly. I would like to understand their system since they are a huge melting pot of people from around the world. (rather wealthy). I would give up certain rights if we could stop the constant massacres of American children... and abuses of the 1st Amendment that has now moved into mass brainwashing.
My guess is that there is no Bill of Rights in Singapore, no rules of evidence.
There is no reason to give up "certain rights" when the issue you refer to is purely one of the Republican party's making. Your comment is flirting with authoritarianism.
I stated that I said I was studying Singapore, I did not say I understand how their system operates. You are guessing and making assumptions about who/what I am flirting with. My mind is very open to questioning what works and does not work. Currently, America's system is not working well and needs major checks and balances for authoritarian despots. That does not mean we have to allow thugs to rule our country. Let's find or create the best that will work for All The People.
It was what you said about how "certain rights" are sacrificed made me remember Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I was also taken aback by what you said about people who misbehave being dealt with quickly.
I was not guessing. And a democracy does not need checks and balances for despots because democracies, as a rule, don't have despots. And wow, the sentence about thugs is hyperbolic. Perhaps you've forgotten that almost every democracy in modern times has been modeled after ours.
Thank you for your inspiring vision of a renewed nation.
My brother and his family just moved to Singapore where safety is extremely important and they give up certain rights to maintain that safety. I am in the process of studying how they have no crime and poor behavior is checked swiftly. I would like to understand their system since they are a huge melting pot of people from around the world. (rather wealthy). I would give up certain rights if we could stop the constant massacres of American children... and abuses of the 1st Amendment that has now moved into mass brainwashing.
My guess is that there is no Bill of Rights in Singapore, no rules of evidence.
There is no reason to give up "certain rights" when the issue you refer to is purely one of the Republican party's making. Your comment is flirting with authoritarianism.
I stated that I said I was studying Singapore, I did not say I understand how their system operates. You are guessing and making assumptions about who/what I am flirting with. My mind is very open to questioning what works and does not work. Currently, America's system is not working well and needs major checks and balances for authoritarian despots. That does not mean we have to allow thugs to rule our country. Let's find or create the best that will work for All The People.
It was what you said about how "certain rights" are sacrificed made me remember Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I was also taken aback by what you said about people who misbehave being dealt with quickly.
I was not guessing. And a democracy does not need checks and balances for despots because democracies, as a rule, don't have despots. And wow, the sentence about thugs is hyperbolic. Perhaps you've forgotten that almost every democracy in modern times has been modeled after ours.
Um, parliamentary democracies (India, Israel, etc.) might have been modeled after the British.