"I'll drive from state to state. Do they let you do that? No papers?"

[Catherine Vincent]

Well Captain Borodin...not in Arizona.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cG8t7yT5mw

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. I remember, as a child, the first "bad" thing I learned about The Soviet Union was ...

... how awful it was that you had to produce papers when stopped by the police.

[Richard Steele]

3. Yup. Back in grade school, they used that as an an example of how EVIL the USSR was.

Amazing, innit?

[TorchTheWitch]

4. that and wiretapping of citizens

We're becoming what we were taught to despise. And somehow it's gone unnoticed by most people.

[bananas]

7. k&r #5 nt

[Daphne08]

10. Don't forget the fact that they tortured people. n/t

[JoeyT]

11. And were able to execute citizens without trials. n/t

[TorchTheWitch]

13. I was responding to what I was taught as a kid

that was the average experience of the average Soviet citizen. Torturing people wasn't mentioned. Being sent to Siberia was though. Not that they ever really explained what being "sent to Siberia" meant, but they made it sound scary so we assumed it was a bad place.

[cynatnite]

2. Good one. n/t

[Volaris]

5. Oh the irony...

Not having laws like this while the USSR had this kind of Idiocy systemically institutionalized for 50 years is one of the reasons why we won the fuckin' Cold War.
You Stay Classy, Arizona.

and P.S.--Red October--Still Awesome after all these years..)

[Froward69]

6. Kick and REC unreccing trolls out in force today...

I was 4th off of greatest.

so warped up in hate... cannot see the real tyranny here.

[ashling]

8. Those were the olden days

you know, when you could take a chicken to the doctor

[classysassy]

9. If you are a gringo

you are welcome in Arizona.The racist here hate all other hues .

[NeoGreen]

12. I think I will need two wives...

... I would like to have seen Montana.



One of my favorite movies.