William Doyle

Socialism, to me, means the government interferes in the free market.

That does not exist here.

In fact, it's even better than the United States on that score.

There are no political prisoners here.

There haven't been, I think, in 80 years, if ever.

And that's not the case in many other nations.

So, in terms of the government allowing business to flourish and capitalism to flourish and companies to conduct R&D, which is very heavily supported here by the government, these are definitions of freedom that I think many Americans could buy into.

And that's what I look for in a government.

business alone, to leave me alone, to let me publish and say anything I want to.

And that's very much the case here.

Although recently there was a controversial...

Finnish Supreme Court case where a doctor, member of parliament, published a pamphlet that said homosexuality is a disorder.

And that was interpreted as a verbal injury against a group of people that under the hate laws here was homosexual.

punishable offense.

I think she's getting fined.

But it was really in the context of her being a doctor saying it's a medical disorder, which was false according to the laws at the time.

So that may affect the index next year.

And it's very controversial here in Finland.

It even hit the American news as well.

The context here, and by the way, Finland has been built in the last 80 years by a center-right coalition, largely.