What is this "Freedom House" backdrop?

[TomInTib]

A US-run string of coffee/tea houses in the Middle East?

[htuttle]

1. I think it's more of a buffet type place

All you can eat for $11.50, or something like that.

[guidod]

2. I googled and found this

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1

[TomInTib]

3. Goodness, I had never heard of this bunch.

Did you check out the "Freedom Map"?

Thanks for clearing that up for me (I think).

[buff2]

4. Did you check out the board of trustees?

There's a Forbes,Negroponte and PJ O'Rourke on it! If it wasn't rightwingers,bu$h would have NOTHING to do with it.That's a fact.

[guidod]

5. Yes I did and if you noticed

it's all about religion. He knows he's safe there. What a dick!


http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/

[sinkingfeeling]

6. It was founded 60 years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt...

Freedom House is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Founded over 60 years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, and other Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right.

Since its founding, Freedom House has vigorously opposed tyranny including dictatorships in Latin America, apartheid in South Africa, and Soviet Communism and domination of Eastern and Central Europe, and religiously-based totalitarian regimes including Sudan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

[TomInTib]

7. How about tyranny in the Good Old USA?

Something tels me Freedom House has fallen off its original moorings.