(January 9, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Pretty sure that's not even remotely an accurate assessment of what we are - even if it's an accurate assessment of how many in the state choose to see it.
Our state, here in The States, is a vassal (not that this language is even half appropriate, given the structure of our state) to it's public, and explicitly so.
In principle, but as we see in this case and others, not so much in practice.
