Jailing Freedom

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-abughraib26jun26,0,4979912.story?track=tottext
(LA Times report on Americans needing to build more prisons and expand the famed Abu Ghraib jail because of ‘ballooning prison population’)

One would imagine Saddam’s famously ‘despotic’ regime would need more prisons than the Americans now that the latter have brought freedom to the land of one of the oldest civilizations on earth. If that’s the case, why would the Americans need to build more jails?

Or may be, the Americans bombed away all of Saddam’s prisons as a way to free the Iraqis held by that despot.

Or may be, ‘mad’ Saddam didn’t need that many prisons because he had been killing off his prisoners wholesale instead of jailing them (unlike the nice Americans). But in that case, it should then be obvious to every Iraqi that those Americans are their ‘saviours’ on earth. Then why are they whacking those Americans daily?

Or may be, those Iraqis are real fools that know no better, or are influenced by ‘external forces’ that just hate those nice Americans to death. Who on earth would harbor such a stupid idea? Who could not see that Americans are great people out to do the whole world a favour? Like, who else (not even certain bacteria) would be so great as to gobble up 30 million barrels of oil (or 25% of the world’s oil production), and ‘free’ mother earth of the great burden of housing those dirty black hydrocarbons that everyone else like the Arabs on camels, Chinamen on opium and other infatuations etc. have no use for?

Or may be, freedom was the excuse used to steal control of someone else’s assets (oil in this case). Jailing those not willing to accept their predatory overlord is just the tool used to give the illusion that freedom had indeed arrived. If they are locked up, they cannot demonstrate nor do other stunts like blowing people esp. Americans up. This is nothing new - they do it in their own home with the likes of the ‘free blacks’ and the poor/disadvantaged whom they lock up wholesale to create the illusion of a great democracy.

What a great system they have! Which also explain why they can only ‘export’ the concept but not share it.

For if their system is so great, we all can be in heaven on earth just by migrating to ‘great America’ and let Uncle Sam bring us all great freedom. Their Adam Smith’s invisible hand and Milton Friedman’s price mechanism would solve all earthly problems that all deities since time immemorial could not.

They don’t want you and me? They like the fun of having green card lotteries?

Deng Xiao Ping put it about the same way when 'challenged' by my previous pet American idiot Ronald Reagan when he visited China decades ago.

The latter asked Deng why Chinamen could not be ‘more free’ like his Americans.

Deng said, sure, China can open its doors and let Chinamen be free to do anything including the freedom to go to the US and live the great American dream. The question: is the US willing to open the door for these Chinamen.

Apparently, the other idiot never raised that topic ever again and went home to focus on his ‘star wars’ programs that his followers claim finally ‘saved Eastern Europe’ from the ‘evil Russians’.