State of Freedom

Just a quick post here. Thanks to a trans-atlantic friend, this report card on liberty came my way - just click on the link above. It's a great, reasonably objective and consistent model by which one can understand the state of freedom in the world, country by country.

Of note is the poor state of freedom in such countries as North Korea and Iran. When the public dialogue attempts to draw some kind of equivalence between these nations and western, liberal democracies I'm always amazed. A policy that actively pursues the destruction of these goverments which are keeping their own citizens prisoners (keep in mind a nice prison cell just like your neighbors is in a prison) seems the ONLY morally legitimate stance one can take. But that's just me.

As to the U.S. rank of 8 - take a look at the numbers. It's 1/10ths of percentage points that separate the U.S. from the most free nations. It's impercetible.