End communism!
Democracy now
in North Korea, Vietnam,
Cuba and China.


Politics

I believe in western civilization, free speech, free press, rational enquiry, academic freedom, human rights, civil liberties, liberal democracy, minority rights, and a secular state. I believe these are universal values that should spread to the entire world. I want to see all dictatorships and tyrannies in the world ended, by force if necessary.


The World


I believe that free enterprise, free trade and the right to property are allies of these freedoms, and essential to them. As I say, I haven't time to campaign on any of these. Setting up this web site is about the limit of my commitment at the moment.


In favour of capitalism




The right

I am generally happy to describe myself as situated on the libertarian or neo-con right (or a classic 18th-19th century liberal).

Roughly: I agree with the left on civil liberties. I agree with the right on the economy and foreign policy.


The modern right


Who would I vote for?


The Irish right


Some universal laws and paradoxes of human nature



The left

I was left-wing when I was young. The left were right in the past on things like domestic civil liberties, free speech, free private life, freedom of sexuality and freedom of religion (and freedom from religion).

But they have been wrong on an awful lot lately. First, on economics, they do not know how to make a country prosperous. Second, their foreign policy has become decadent. Instead of a great liberal vision of deposing all dictators, and bringing democracy and human rights to the whole world, their foreign policy seems instead to be based entirely on an infantile rejection of America.


The modern left


The Irish left




Tyranny and Democide

Communism and Fascism are the two great killers of innocents of the modern age, and the killing continues today, notably in North Korea. Islamic Fascism has also emerged as a new tyranny threatening the world.

The 20th century was a failed century of genocidal, statist, utopian philosophies. Let us hope that it never happens again. Let us hope that the 21st century is the century that classic liberalism spreads to the whole world.


The fight for human freedom


Fascism


Communism


Countries



Islamic tyranny

Islamism may be the last chance for tyranny. The last great, unifying, utopian, totalitarian system that can attract worldwide support. The last chance to hold back the tide of human freedom.


Islamic Fascism


Israel


Countries



Freedom of speech and thought

The core of all freedoms is that we should be free to talk about everything. All other freedoms follow.


Anti-censorship




Ireland

I myself am from Southern Ireland. Secular capitalism has finally triumphed there.

As an Irishman, the countries I feel closest to in terms of shared values are America and Britain.



 

Writings on Politics and Religion

by Mark Humphrys


Politics:

Religion

Blog

U.S. election 2008 blog

Blog - Archive (2004-06)




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Liberal democracy everywhere.
No exceptions.
End tyranny everywhere.


Make Non-Democracy History:
End all non-democracies on earth
by 2025.





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1900

Afghanistan

Anti-censorship

Anti-Green page

Atheism

Atheism - Arguments

The Axes - the new power blocs of the world

The Bible

The Bible in its Own Words

Bushisms

In favour of Capitalism

China

Christianity

Killings for Christianity

Christianity and the Holocaust

The Church and Islamism

Cinema and the war

Cinema and the war - List of movie "bad guys"

Cinema - Movies against the war

Cinema - Movies supportive of the war

The Cold War

Communism in the Americas

Communism in Asia

Communism

Crime

Cuba

In defence of Cultural imperialism

Eddie Holt - commentary

U.S. Election, 2004

Election, 2004 - Kerry

U.S. Election, 2008

Election, 2008 - McCain

Election, 2008 - Obama

The End of tyrants

How to End war and famine

Europe and America

Fascism

Fiona de Londras - discussion

The Guardian

"It's In The Koran"

The IPS (Irish Peace Society) - exchange

Iran

Iraq

Iraq - The liberation of 2003

Iraq - The guerilla war since 2003

Iraq - How to lose

Iraq - How to win

The Iraqi "resistance"

How many died in Iraq?

Censorship in 20th century Ireland

The Irish left (groups)

The Irish left

The Irish left (media)

The Irish left (people)

The Irish left (politics)

The Irish right

Islam

Killings for Islam

Islam in the West

Islam in the UK

Islamist terror in the UK

Islam in Ireland

Islamic Fascism

The Islamic street

What is wrong with the Islamic world?

Islamist nightmare scenarios

Islamism - The solution

The Islamist way of war

Islamophobia

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict - War crimes

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel - The future

Israel

Judaism

Some Laws of human nature

Leaving the left

Lebanon and Syria

Lebanon war, 2006

The Left and Islamic fascism

People who Let me down after 9/11

Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

The Media

The Mind of the left

The Modern left

Modern leftists

The Modern right

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland - Nationalists

Northern Ireland - Unionists

North Korea

Not censorship

Peace and non-violence

Pushpop - Discussion with a student

Religions

Criticising and satirising Religions

The Right and freedom

Scepticism

Science and Religion

Sinn Fein and the IRA's support for tyranny

The Soviet Union

Terrorism

The Third World

The Unfree world

The U.S. military

Who would I Vote for?

Voteoutffpd.com - exchange

The West

"Left" and "Right" - What am I?

Who is winning the war?

World bodies

The World






Writers on politics that I like

This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it gives you an idea:


  • John Locke
  • Adam Smith
  • Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Edmund Burke
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Winston Churchill
  • George Orwell
  • F.A. Hayek
  • Karl Popper
  • Milton Friedman
  • Ronald Reagan

  • George W. Bush
  • John Bolton
  • Paul Wolfowitz
  • Richard Perle
  • David Frum
  • Robert Kagan
  • Norman Podhoretz
  • Tony Blair

  • Natan Sharansky
  • Rudolph J. Rummel
  • James C. Bennett
  • Mark Palmer
  • Richard Fernandez
  • Richard Landes
  • Hernando de Soto

  • Victor Davis Hanson
  • Mark Steyn
  • Michael Ledeen
  • Charles Krauthammer
  • Max Boot
  • Jonah Goldberg
  • Thomas Sowell
  • Ralph Peters

  • Joshua Muravchik
  • Daniel Pipes
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Robert W. Tracinski
  • David Horowitz
  • P.J. O'Rourke
  • Jeff Jacoby
  • Bruce Bawer

  • Michael Gove
  • Theodore Dalrymple
  • Andrew Bolt
  • Kevin Myers
  • Eoghan Harris
  • Richard Waghorne

  • Amir Taheri
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Ibn Warraq
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Munira Mirza
  • Robert Spencer



The fight for human freedom

From the Renaissance to the Reformation. From the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment. From the struggle for democracy and human rights in the 18th century to the last stand for democracy in World War Two in the 20th century. From the defeat of the Ottoman Turks to the defeat of Napoleon. From the Cold War to the War on Terror. The struggle for human freedom is unending.

It will not end, it will never end, until every country on earth is a democracy.

The enemies of human political and economic freedom:



Within the democracies, the right has the best track record on defending democracy and human freedom:



Pro-interventionist

The main change in my thinking over the last few years has been that I have become much more interventionist. I want to end tyranny everywhere. I want to end Islamic law and replace it with freedom of religion. I want to end communism and replace it with freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and elections.

Almost all of the trouble in this world - including all war and all famine - is caused by the countries that are still not democratic. The world will never be safe until democracy spreads to the entire world. This may actually happen in our lifetimes. World War 2 brought democracy to Western Europe and the Far East. World War 3 brought democracy to Eastern Europe and South and Central America. And now World War 4 may be bringing democracy to the Middle East. This is a time of great hope. After 5,000 years of civilization, tyranny may finally be on the way out in this century. If the whole world becomes democratic, it will mean the end of war and the end of famine, forever.




Map of world freedom 2008, based on rankings of Freedom House.
Green - "Free".
Yellow - "Partly Free".
Purple - "Not Free".
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The world's true freedom fighters.




"I'm crying.
This is our day, the day of all the oppressed and good people on earth.
Tears of joy filled the eyes of all the people.
Thank you American, British, Spanish, Italian, Australian, Ukrainian, Japanese and all the coalition people and all the good people on earth.
God bless Iraq. God bless America. God bless the coalition people and soldiers.
God bless all the freedom loving people on earth. I wish I could hug you all."

- An Iraqi blogger on the capture of the monster Saddam Hussein, Dec 2003 - the greatest moment of the century so far.



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