On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:47:23 UTC, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Americans are essentially a law-abiding peoples, and would sacrifice common sense to ensure that the law is enforced.
I do wish we could reduce the amount of nationalist sniping and worse than useless generalities.
Another thing Americans like to do: Laugh scornfully at other countries' rigid bureaucacies mindlessly enforcing the letter of massive, intrusive, and stupid laws and regulations. (Since some people can't imagine an American saying anything that is not shallow and dogmatic, I need to explain that those opinions of other countries' administrations are not necessarily *true*; just that that's a perception, not necessarily less valid than the one cited above.)