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Stephen thinks freedom is for everybody not just for us.
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FREEDOM
By Stephen O'Donoghue
With oppression - starvation and war all over the world - who can blame people for wanting to come here. Stephen thinks freedom is for everybody not just for us.

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Hawaii
Don't you just love this guy's video's. I think he should get his own TV chat show.

Marianne
Could Stephen and some of these commentators tell me how all the poor in the world should have this 'right to freedom'? It's taken Britain a thousand years of struggle to gain the freedoms we have. Yes, I would love to see the oppressed of the world have a better life, but how does Stephen and others propose they should do it? By encouraging all these millions to emigrate to which ever country they choose - which of course would be the western democracies. How would we cope with such an influx, could someone tell me. What the poor of the world need is stable, uncorrupt government and fair trading practices. The west should help more with the latter but we cannot enforce better government.

Mehmet
I have been asking a question myself for 2 years why I am here? It is very diffucult to find only one answer but one of them is more important than all others. Because my country is not safe for me there is no future for my children. There are many reasons for this. Just a question... How much wealth of our country goes to the UK? Why are there wars where those rich nations interfere with poorer nations goverments.

John
Following the logic of this video, we shold welcome the millions of Chinese who have no right to vote. He said there is no problem. But he is the problem. Where will the millions who lack freedom live in this overcrowded island?

Sabino Arana
All people need to be free, but in some countries that is not posible.

Hussain
I agree to the comments of Stephen... the world needs true open mindedness and truthfulness, not sham open mindedness and truthfulness.

Lara
I study sociology at school and am in the process of doing my coursework, I decided to do a topic on Asylum seekers and their rights. Fact is that in this country, worryingly, the majority of people won't give them their rights and treat them like lepers. They should be given freedom, and the fact that people in the UK are ignorantly depriving them of this makes me ashamed to be British.

Sean Flanagan
We are indeed a nation of diverse peoples from all walks of life worldwide. Freedom is indeed the right of everyone. Our system isn't perfect but at least we have the right to vote, which many other countries deny their citizens.

David Moore
The problem is that we do not analyse the problem in humanitarian terms. Children should be taught logic in school as a compulsory subject. We are all descendant from immigrants.




Title:
FREEDOM
Contributor:
Stephen O'Donoghue
Length:
1.19 mins
Date:
21 Jul 2003
Source:
Video Nation UK
Country:
England - London
Categories:
Belief
Values
Feature:
Asylum Day


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