Okay so, in our country we allow free-speech, someone can say whatever they want, and we defend everyone else's right to do that within reason, and there is a pretty broad scope to all that, and I suppose if you are living in the United States that you already know this. Personally, I think it is a wonderful freedom and I exercise my rights every single day and have even produced 26,800 online articles to have my say, thus, proving my point here today.
Now then if folks mouth off about the United States in their former country, saying nasty things about America, even wanting to completely disassociate with our nation, then should they then someday in the future be able to gain US citizenship? Ah, good questions, in other words to we pre-afford them the rights in their countries previously with regards to free-speech? Well, we are under no duty to do that since free-speech in the USA is for US Citizens not for non-US citizens, so that's something those who study immigration law need to consider.
What if families of strong regimes demand to "oust the US" or "demand we remove our military bases from their countries" and then when their regimes fall or their kids grow up, we allow them student VISAs or political refugee citizenship status? Again all good questions yes? Next we need to ask some questions and take this all under a pragmatic case-by-case basis hadn't we? For instance, when, why, how, and under what circumstances did they come out and speak out against the USA?
If these folks did that in their country during a human fit of extreme pride or nationalism and desire for complete independence in their affairs, they have the right to those viewpoints. Every nation, individual wants liberty and freedom to conduct their own affairs, no one wants to be told what to do by another nation right? Shouldn't all leaders of all countries be hesitant against anything they consider to be imperialistic, and thus, should the US with her own history realize this too? There is a fine line between helping another nation with strings-attached, and commanding them as how to lead their own affairs right?
Isn't that why the US is now its own nation and not part of England? See that point too. So, if someone spoke negatively about the US in their nation long ago, we need to know the context, look ourselves in the mirror, and ask if they had the story right, even from their perspective? Did we push too hard, or did we ruffle the feathers of the population? If so, they may have had no choice in the matter you see, either side with the population or have their regimes overthrown and be booted out.
No, it doesn't make me very happy to hear other leaders and their inner circle rag on the United States, but, we also have to realize the context and circumstances - because politics is a messy business. So, please think on all this.
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