Something About Freedom

Despite living on another continent I still keep up to date on Western news. During the past week all that I've read and heard is "Bla bla bla spread the freedom! Bla bla bla spread the freedom!" Seems Bushy wants to justify the Iraqi war by saying he simply wants to "spread freedom." Wow, that's quite a task! On their yearly report, Freedom House created a listing of what they consider free, not free, and partly free countries. They list a total of 49 countries that are "not free," 89 that are "free" and 55 countries that are "partly free." Man, that's a lot of freedom to spread! Somehow his way of spreading freedom includes thousands of innocent deaths. Canada of course was on the "free" list. Maybe it should have been on the "partly free" list. I was reading a transcript of Question Period (CTV Sunday's) and apparently Paul Martin has ordered all members of his cabinet to vote in favor of the Same Sex Bill. That's not what I would call freedom. Political analyzers speculate that if the vote fails it would be deemed as a non-confidence vote against Martin and could possibly spring an election. It has been deemed as impossible by the Liberals, but I still support Ralph Kleins' idea of a referendum on the issue.