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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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The quote is most assuredly US based, and from an authoritative source. before I place it here I want to suggest that this is as relevant to The UK, to Qatar, to Australia, to Iran, to anywhere, as to the USA.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt, May 7,1918"
Now it seems to me that the USA has a healthy riticism of its president most of the time. So Roosevelt must have had a good effect.
Most democratic nations allow the same level of criticism. But there are many allegedly demotractic ones or leaders of nations who do not.
There appears to be a correlation between gay rights and equality and the ability or freedom to criticise.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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