Originally Posted by Botnst

Moynihan's Law - "The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country."
The quote - "If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people." - US Senator Daniel Moynihan

"Moynihan's Law" helps explain why the western left hates free countries like Israel and loves unfree countries like Cuba.

Moynihan's Law applied to Israel - "The degree of oppression of any people is an inverse function of the amount of cries of oppression one hears from them. The only government in the Middle East that does not indiscriminately shoot Arabs who criticize it is that of Israel."