Re: werdsmith America is mad! - A truly shocking FAIL
"Try <a href="https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index>reading some actual expert opinion</a>"
In which report the US appears 23rd in the table, just above Latvia and below Estonia. Wow, way to not make a point :)
I'm pretty sure that the feeling of freedom (or lack of it) from the poster referring to the jaywalking was that in most places, crossing an empty road wouldn't have been prosecuted (unless it was a motorway, and even then a ticking off would suffice).
It may be media bias, but I don't have the impression that the US Police use a lot of discretion, they act more like the biggest gang on the block and then they are vilified for it. Hardly surprising is it?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
