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Politics - The World - The unfree world


 


Liberal democracy everywhere.
End tyranny everywhere.
End all non-democracies on earth
by 2025.

Communist states

Africa

Other unfree states

Some "Partly Free" states of interest

Islamic states


The unfree world

The fight for free speech and against state censorship is really the central issue of the fight for human freedom. The Internet is the latest in a long line of technologies that is threatening to all philosophies that are terrified of freedom of speech - such as Islamic fundamentalism and communism.

I could link forever to information that the thugs and bullies of this world want to prevent people from reading. Here are just a few examples. Remember that vast amounts of this information is banned or suppressed in the old media in its country, but available freely in the Internet, which shows how threatening the Internet is. In bold I link to a human rights report on the country.

These states are all listed as "Not Free" by Freedom House, except for the ones marked at the end.





Islamic states (separate page)




Communist states

And recently ex-communist, still unfree, states.



Modern communist states


Russia (ex-communist but still unfree)


Others



Africa


Zimbabwe


Rwanda


Others



Other unfree states


One could go on forever with links to information that is banned in the unfree world. For example, most citizens of the Islamic Middle East are protected from ever hearing the arguments of atheism from cradle to grave. They are also, along with citizens of many other countries, prevented from receiving any real information on homosexuality.



Some "Partly Free" states of interest


Ethiopia


Others



"I went to Zwolle. ... There was a policeman in uniform, and I felt a sudden fear when I saw him, but he told me politely, "Our center is full, we're not taking any more refugees, but you can go to Zeewolde." He gave me a bus card and a train ticket and instructions for the journey. ... Police to me were oppressors, demanders of bribes. They were never helpful. I asked him "Why are you helping me?" and he smiled and said, "Those are the rules." I asked, "And is every policeman this kind?" and he replied, "I sure hope so." After this, anything was possible. To me, government was bad. It was crooked and duplicitous and it oppressed you. And here all these people were busy helping you and this for foreigners. How on earth did they treat their own clans?"
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in her book Infidel, describes life in the unfree world, so alien to us, where the idea that the government and police might help you is utterly alien.


"Colonel Gaddafi must understand that our country is not a doormat on which a leader, terrorist or not, can come and wipe the blood of his crimes off his feet. France should not receive this kiss of death."
- Rama Yade (see search), French minister for human rights, shows delicious disrespect for the vile dictator Gaddafi, Dec 2007.


"Let's get rid of them all"
- Tony Blair on the regimes of the unfree world.
He is responding to the "anti-war" argument on Iraq: "Why attack Iraq when there are so many other tyrannies?" Blair brilliantly calls their bluff: Yes. I agree. Let's do them all. Of course this is the last thing the "anti-war" people want! They want all tyrannies to be left alone. The left wants to leave tyrannies alone. I want all tyrannies destroyed, everywhere. This is why I am not a leftist.



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