Please name one vicious tyrant, preferably one who has been in power for about 40 years, considers himself to embody the state, and has had the delightful habit of sending assassination squads all over the world to deal with dissenters, who has been willing to give up a portion of his power over his own people.
   most of the usa presidents since the second world war, through the CIA.
AND the macCarthy era, ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY,deprived of the abilty to work[robeson seeger etc] the undermining of Cuba, the undemocratic overthrow of Allende, the support of Pinochet., the involvement in Vietnam, all this in the name of freedom, but at the same time boosting their economy, through armament sales
its about time America stopped acting as a world police force, and stopped this rubbish about the land of the free and freedom and democracy