The land of the free! This is the land of the free! Why, if I say
anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that's my
freedom. Free? Why I have never been in any country where the
individual has such an abject fear of his fellow countrymen. Because,
as I say, they are free to lynch him the moment he shows he is not one
of them.
-- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)