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from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

And yet the land of the free has draconian speed limits

that are largely unenforced.

I wouldn't know but that reputation (for freedom) is more myth than
truth. The right to bear arms is about the only one that has stood the
test of time. Prohibition doesn't exactly smack of freedom and in the
same era teaching evolution was a criminal offence. They were still
practising slavery in the 1860s and apartheid in the 1960s.
--
Roger Chapman