Everyone wants freedom, Sawzaw...they want their own form of it. To the Cubans and Vietnamese, freedom meant self-government of their own lands, free of domination by foreign governments and foreign business interests. It meant ending colonialism, kicking out the Mafia and the foreign bosses and the CIA. It meant self-rule.

Got it? You don't get it because you weren't born a Third Worlder in a land being ruthlessly exploited by rich American (or French) interests.

Your freedom in your own land has no bearing on the matter whatsoever, because it is not extended to the suffering populations in other lands which your business people rape and exploit for their profits. Your country doesn't promote freedom outside its own borders. It promotes exploitation, war, slaughter, torture, and corruption...all for the sake of corporate profit.

And even in your own land your freedoms are being taken away, bit by bit. The Patriot Act was a big step in taking them away.