Real Freedom - True or Fiction?

Longhaired Freaky Person asked:


A majority of Iraqis have wanted the US troops to leave for YEARS now.

As many as a million Iraqis marched today demanding an immediate withdrawal of US forces.

Over 655,000 Iraqis have died from violence, hunger, and disease since Bush launched his invasion.

War is not peace.
Death is not liberation.
Occupation is not democracy.
Wonderful, Abu. It’s a pity you couldn’t have been so enlightened in 2003.
Galaxie, I think your ignorance is astonishing. Women in Iraq could do all those things in Iraq for decades.

Or are you thinking of Afghanistan and you imagine all Muslim countries are the same?

Todd

kaminski_aleksander asked:


Does freedom house give false information about Russia

Tanya

joe_paul_christian asked:


Written by Fareed Zakaria. I thought it was a facinating book. What are your thoughts? Those of you who have read this book.

Gertrude

LHOOQ asked:


Do you want Miss Green back?
Miss Green, for those of you who don’t know

http://arabia.msn.com/channels/funcentral/mm/Common/Content/Wallpaper/TheGreenOnes.jpg
Eric, why am I evil?
Fuzzy, your opinion is welcome.

So is mine.

Yvonne

Andrew G asked:


In the 1950s in Australia the Menzies government had a referendum on the question of whether the Communist Party should be banned. There was a big public backlash to this because people believed that it was an attack on freedom of speech. Even if they didn’t agree with the ideas of the Communist Party, it was important that they were not prevented from voicing those ideas. Consequently the referendum was lost and the Communist Party were allowed to continue.

Now what would happen if the Menzies referendum had passed? This would effectively mean a democratic decision had been made that destroyed the fundamental tenets of freedom of association and free speech.

Should the democratic decision of the majority be respected and free speech just walked all over and forgotten about? Or should freedom of association and freedom of speech be imposed no matter what the majority say?
Incidentally, as I have noticed that most of you are from the US, I thought it would be worth mentioning this.

The US government didn’t even bother with a referendum on the issue in the 1950s. They set up the House Committee on Un-American Activities and just started questioning and imprisoning people if they were connected with the Communist Party. They also passed a bill called the Communist Control Act of 1954 which ’sought to outlaw the Communist Party by declaring that the party, as well as “Communist-Infiltrated Organizations” were “not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities attendant upon legal bodies” (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mccarthyism#Laws_and_arrests)’.

Of course much of this was later deemed unconstitutional. But these things are up for interpretation.

Alvin

♥ Gloria♥ asked:


Or having Oil&Gas serve as prerequisites to get invaded and occupied?

Michelle

Jennatellwertz asked:


I believe that hackers and the like are necessary in this modern world to help ensure that freedoms are not stolen from the people on a massive scale. Do you agree or disagree?

Karl

Tiko asked:


In order for a country to provide more security to people it has to take awway some of the people’s rights. However, the goverment can abuse its power. In the book 1984 by George Orwell people were manupilated by the governement because the governement was so powerful.

Willie

VV asked:


Others claim it opposes democracy because it concentrates wealth Which position so you find more convincing? Why

Frederick

hohihohi asked:


How do these values work together or against each other??
can you give me some examples in American history?

Sam