In a speech on Iraqi democracy last spring, Bush called Freedom House “a tireless champion for liberty” and “a clear voice for the oppressed across the world.” Expressing gratitude for its work, he said Freedom House was “making a significant contribution to the security of our country.”
But Freedom House’s annual report highlights some concerns about freedom in the United States.
The United States, it noted, “suffered from a series of political corruption cases and weakness in the enforcement of laws meant to ensure the rights of workers to form unions and collective bargaining.”
The report also described “continued controversy over the counter-terrorism policies of the Bush administration,” including detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and “various facilities in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.” It worried over “the enactment of legislation that allows the government to employ what some believe are methods bordering on torture in the interrogation of terrorism suspects” and eavesdropping without warrants.
Freedom’s Report Card Mixed (Washington Post)
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hi! clicked thru to here from Robert Anton Wilson’s blog. May he rest in peace.
am hitting up a few people because I have put up a site for a friend of mine, a psychologist/OT who uses an approach similar to that of RAW for working with people with mental illness, and has found it very effective.
sorry if u find a post similar to this on some other blogger sites, as, as i say, I am hitting up a few people who might be interested in this stuff.
site is at
Radical Uncertainty
Not many people know it, but Freedom House also publishes the Jeffrey Dahmer cookbook. I asked them about that. Their spokesdude twitched, leered at me and said, “One man’s meat is another man’s beloved child. . . tee hee hee”. Don’t ever let anyone tell you welfare queen wingnuts and their taxpayer-subsidized bedbug scholars lack a sense of humor.