Further Proof - The World Craves Freedom

Immigration to the US, 1820-2007 v2 from Ian S on Vimeo.
The above animation is an amazing visual display of how the world truly craves freedom; a specific brand of freedom that only the United States of America has offered. The numbers speak for themselves...

During the past several years we heard liberals, most Democrats, say that the rest of the world didn't have a favorable view of the United States- that we were bullies, etc. Of course no other country in the world has given so much of itself, risked life and limb, to help bring aid, safety, and freedom to those in need in the world. When a country country has come to the U.S. asking for help- we're there.

The United States on 9-11-01 comes under attack, what was the result? The Taliban loses its heavy grip on Afghanistan- they have elections in fact. Iraq, and the world, has one of the most viscous dictators taken off the map, and off the earth- though this didn't have as much to do with 9/11 as much as years of Saddam Hussein "playing" the weapons inspectors. But was there atrocities such as genocide? Yes. How could we look the other way for another 8 years? We didn't. Now when U.S. soldiers walk through the streets of Baghdad, as well as many other towns, they are not greeted as a threat, but as friends, as saviors. But Democrats would not want us to know that- that would not have helped the "holy one" Barack Obama become elected.

A fact that falls by the wayside for many, George W. Bush has done more to help Africa with A.I.D.S. epidemic than any other U.S. President- a fact that even Barack Obama admits. The much despised George W. Bush in his own country is considered a hero in many African nations. Go figure.

So what is the point of this whole article? No other country in the world has such an "immigration issue" as does the U.S. People risk their lives to have an opportunity to step on American soil, to experience real freedom. People are not building rafts made of sticks to ride through the dangerous shark infested waters of the carribean to make it to the shores of Cuba or Haiti. People don't risk their lives, enduring suffocation, while they ride in a trunk, or cargo, hoping to be "shipped" into the U.S. making it past Customs.

Many other countries, in Europe for example, don't have the opportunities that immigrants have in the U.S. But watching the NBC, CNN, or CBS nightly news, one would think that the United States is a horrible place- mean spirited, hateful toward anything that isn't American. Yet, more and more people, by the thousands, still risk lives to be American. It all comes down to one word- FREEDOM. The world craves freedom.