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The great French observer of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, saw this face of American democracy in the 1830’s, noting that “Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
There is high respect for the concept of rule of, by, and for the people, as well as for the US Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of expression.
Instead, with America’s help, they are enjoying the first blush of freedom.
India, like many other countries with economic interests in the Pacific, wants freedom of maritime navigation to be assured, with no threat of a Chinese veto.
In Russia's recent parliamentary elections, which were - regardless of various reservations - conducted according to democratic standards, parties advocating political and economic freedom suffered painful defeat, while parties proclaiming hostility to the rule of law and modern pluralist democracy were successful.
After years of repression at the hands of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi Shia are tasting freedom - and spurring their religious counterparts throughout the Gulf to become more assertive.
But then minorities - especially with a history of subjugation - always do, because it allows them to express their cultural identity and religious freedom.
Essentially, by exploiting behavioral quirks, they would nudge people into making decisions that are good for them, even while individuals have complete freedom to change their mind.
The freedom of speech that Communism suppressed overnight could, on its fall, be restored overnight.
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting,” they declared, “but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
Here the all-powerful Tsar was key to protecting the great Russian soul from the "evil" western influences of freedom and disorder.
She then quickly proceeded to give a long celebratory speech about the heroism of US soldiers “fighting for freedom” abroad.
Part of such rabble-rousers’ stock-in-trade is to conflate patriotism, freedom, and God.
Talk of God, freedom, and nation is not unique to right-wing radicals or Republicans.
In an impoverished, war-ravaged Europe, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability, and a new chance to prosper.
They are contained in three concepts: freedom, solidarity, and mutual respect.
In the future, Cameron declared, Muslim groups that do not, for example, endorse women’s rights, defend freedom of expression, or promote integration would lose all government funding.
Moreover, Sweden’s far-reaching freedom of expression is one reason why Assange located WikiLeaks’ servers in the country.
But Sweden’s freedom of expression was also one of the motives behind a grisly suicide attack in Stockholm in December of last year.
Such jubilation appeared to express the possibility of freedom from the tyranny of a dictatorship frozen in time and place.
Political freedom is good for business, and vice versa.
But he also describes the Saddam years as an era in which, while there was no freedom, intellectuals had room to maneuver, as long as they “knew what to leave alone.”
Having grown up amid prosperity and confidence, exposed to Western lifestyles and educations, China’s millennial generation – born in the 1980s and 1990s – were supposed to usher in an era of even greater openness and freedom.
By good politics, I mean the internationalism, freedom of expression, and accountable governance that prevailed during the post-war era of prosperity.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
An army will always remain an unequivocal expression of the shared will to live in freedom, to defend freedom and to engage in joint efforts in order to ensure freedom for others as well.
He rightly sided with the Arab freedom movements, then – when the matter was decided – traveled to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to receive his applause, and then rightly called for Qaddafi’s overthrow and his rendition to the International Criminal Court, only to chicken out when it came to the Security Council vote.
Still, Japan is a democracy, with freedom of expression.
Just as Leviathan shows a Russia caught in the throes of a political nightmare, American Sniper shows a country trapped by its heroic mythology – defined in countless Western movies – of rugged individualism at home and defense of freedom and order abroad.
But Hong Kong is now under stress, as it finds itself at the center of a number of issues and challenges – including how best to balance economic and political freedom and how to engage with an increasingly assertive and ambitious China – that will define its prospects in the century ahead.
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