22 January 2007

Freedom is Good

A survey at Freedomhouse (1) shows that less than half, 47 percent of the world population lives in free countries. And according to the Heritage Foundation(2)
Hong Kong and Singapore are the Top 2 freest economies in the world;

(.. but they are only listed as "partly free" in the freedomhouse survey, giving its assessment of the degree of democracy and freedom in nations. Must be a mistake..)

Singapore, according to Amnesty International, has the world's highest execution rate relative to population size and comes between Russia and Somalia on on 146 when it comes to press freedom.
( Amnesty obviously cant be trusted at all..)

Also an Amnesty report shows that in 2005, 94 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA.

(Considering the long economic ties between Saudi, the US and the West, Saudi surely must have developed into a liberal democracy just as China by now. And all these executions has got to be terrorists and enemies of free liberal democracies, all found guilty of terrible crimes.
- When it comes to Iran they have no excuse, they are in the 'axis of evil'.)

More;

The US has more prisoners per capita than anyone else in the world (715 per 100 000)
(Clearly all successfully captured arab terrorists. Or nationmaster is also wrong.)

Speaking of arabs;

UAE has freest Arab world economy
The UAE, Kuwait and Oman are the Arab world's freest economies, according to a 2005 report. The annual economic freedom report produced by the ExxonMobil funded Cato Institute, a US think tank that promotes liberal economic policies for multinationals, ranked the UAE 16th and Kuwait and Oman 18th out of 123 countries.

(Strange, freedomhouse says UAE and Oman are not free and Kuwait only partly free.. Didnt they liberate Kuwait...?)

Anyway, there is of course a lot of misinformation from Amnesty regarding these free liberal arab countries;
UAE: Death by stoning/ flogging
United Arab Emirates: Harassment of human rights activists must stop
Oman: Further information on fear of torture or ill-treatment

Amnesty clearly doesnt understand how liberal economic freedom automatically leads to freedom and democracy for the population.

They must have been paid by islamist socialists to spread this vile misinformation about these free market economies who also are close US allies.

Just look at China, surely free liberal economies wouldnt enrich China if it was an opressive communist dicatorship?

NOTES

(1) Freedomhouse is predominantly funded by the United States government (United States who themselves rank number 53 in the Worldwide press freedom index, after Tonga) And share number 20 with Chile and Belgium in corruption

(2) Beer baron Joseph Coors contributed a quarter-million dollars to launch The Heritage Foundation 1973. (And he wasnt at all deliriously drunk at the time, as some socialists suggests)

And by 2006 The Heritage Foundation made it to number 8 on the "101 People Who Are Really Screwing America" list. (What a terrible thing to say..)

And the same year the Foundation established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.
(Yes, Margaret Thatcher who liberated the Falkland Islands (clearly british territory) and also liberated many british workers from both their rights and their jobs. And also managed to liberate many unemployed people from their homes.)

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the Heritage Foundation was a key architect and advocate of the "Reagan Doctrine", under which the United States government supported anti-Communist resistance movements in such places as Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua and generally supported global anti-communism during the Cold War.
(And it was NOT any genocide at ALL!! And the Talibans where the good guys back then)

The Heritage Foundation has continued to be an active voice in foreign affairs and has been generally supportive of President George W. Bush's highly successful foreign policies.

The Heritage Foundation also played a key role in building support for Reagan's plans to build an orbital ballistic missile shield, known as the "Strategic Defense Initiative". (Now apparently outsourced to liberal democratic China)