As is plainly evident, the freedom that matters to Edward is far better found in those countries than in the USA. <To suggest that Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela are more interested in freedom than the US seems a bit outré to me, but am sure you will spend loads of bandwidth explaining why you didn't mean what you said.>
Freedom pertains to individuals, not some imaginary collective.
You have perhaps not heard of slavery in the USA. Slaves were not free, even though they lived in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Cassius Clay was not free either, though he was a world champion living in the purported land of the free and home of the apparently rather cowardly, because he was attacked by the government who wished to press-gang, conscript and force him against his will to go and kill Viet Cong [and anyone else whether or not the constitution of the USA allowed it], and possibly be killed, although as he explained he had not been called "Nigger" by Vietnamese.
Freedom is a relative thing, which applies to individuals, not groups.
So, in the worst of any societies, there is always freedom, such as in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Adolf's Germany, the USSR's Stalinist mass murder and death, or Mao's Maelstrom of mass death and murder, but only for the favoured relative few.
Those not in the schedule of "approved free persons" do not experience the freedom you are thinking of. Ecuador is more interested in freedom than is the original habeas corpus common law citadel of freedom aka Great Britain, which is now somewhat less than great. How come Clapper, who lied, is not under arrest, but Edward, who did not, is to be arrested and accused of the worst of offences? Your "freedom" is false.
Not at all outre,
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