America ain’t not free
The Washington Times writes that the Freedom House has decided that the US is not quite as free as we think. Who’s Freedom House? Well, in their own words;
Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom.
Now, I think it’s odd that an organization dedicated to “democracy and freedom” would waste their donor’s dollars looking at the United States while there are pressmen in Canada being silenced by the government, when Bridgette Bardot is facing another trial and fine in france for writing her thoughts in a book. When Christians in Muslim countries are repressed and forbidden to worship as they please. The Zimbabwean government won’t release the results of their election a few weeks ago so Robert Mugabe can stay in power. Evo Morales in Bolivia has unilaterally decided he’ll rewrite constitution. Hugo Chavez is nationalizing every major industry in Venezuela and taking land from farmers and enriching his family with land.
With all of that going on in the world, what could possibly distract the Freedom House in the US. Well, the usual class warfare crap that brings in the self-hating, guilt-ridden limosine liberals’ dollars;
The United States gets mixed reviews, for example, when looking at the situation of African-Americans and minorities in general.
The report notes that over the decades the government has undertaken steps to expunge racism from the law, public institutions, economic life and popular culture. It has mandated affirmative action and adopted policies to encourage political and educational participation.
“These measures have changed America in fundamental ways. But they have not contributed significantly to an improvement in the state of the inner-city poor,” the report concludes.
Freedom House finds that U.S. incarceration rates are “jarring,” rising by more than 300 percent since 1980.
Apparently the Freedom House thinks that our inner-city poor having more free money will somehow make them freer. I’d like an explanation for that. Like Sharon Jasper who gets dragged out in front of the cameras every time someone mentions the urban poor in New Orleans – what with her ample frame, 60″ TV and microwave. That’s how poorly we treat our poverty-stricken inner city dwellers. Shameful, ain’t it?
No one can deny that fewer people in prison would make us freer – well, except for all of us hard-working innocent people who’ll spend more time looking over our shoulder for those criminals that’ll be running the streets instead of being in prison. Maybe that’s the fault of a culture that glorifies criminal behavior, not the government.
Maybe we’ve surrendered all of our freedoms to a government which taken it upon itself to regulate every aspect of our lives. If you look in the Code of Federal Regulations, you’ll see how much of your life is regulated and you don’t even realize it. I’ve even seen where they regulate the size of your theater seats.
OK, so the report isn’t that bad – but how can you make it seem bad to attract those limosine liberal dollars? Easy, find the most rabidly anti-Bush presenters available;
Veteran journalists Helen Thomas and Bob Edwards—will appear as guest commentators at the event.
But they have their work cut out for them;
Mr. Melia said many of the authors originally focused on the post-Sept. 11 limitations on civil liberties in the country. However, it became clear in the editing process that the prison camp holding terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and monitoring of individuals under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, don’t impact as many Americans as the political process, the criminal justice system and religious freedoms.
Geez, all of the Bush-related issues aren’t that bad, but I’m sure Helen Thomas can make a few popular-culture, anti-Bush jokes with no basis in reality to get the audience a-tittering.
