Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

Afghanistan is only behind Somalia for corruption – but Somalia is not a democracy.

Hamid Karzai has moved his country up several notches in rank. Afghanistan is now the most corrupt "democracy" in the world! The US installed overlord has kept the Afghan traditions alive.

In a moment of calm, Jack Straw admitted that if the public knew the lies and outright illegal activities of the government the people would revolt and change the system of government. The struggle to hold secret the meetings leading up to the UK's entrance into the Iraq invasion with George Bush expanded after the courts ordered the records to be made public.

The recent Democratic Party debacle, pitting a woman against a black man, presents a competition, one you feel you must chose from. A one way or the other and no other way can be possible. This farce is presented as the pinnacle of liberty when in fact it is tantamount to a media directed submission to the will of the global moneyed interests.