TheReasoner
Former christian, current teapot agnostic.
Hm. I am afraid you are wrong OB.I seriously doubt that Scandinavian countries have greater press freedom, citizen rights, freedom of speech, etc.. If the leftists in the US have their way (they have been pushing) then we'll see it. Canada is already there , with the Human rights commisions and all, but Americans have a significant degree of libertarianism. Not to mention , the First and Second Amendments.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025
Iceland and Norway on a shared first in press freedom.
Finland and Sweden comes fifth. Denmark 8th. The US
The United States comes in at 48th place.
Then have a look at privacy rights:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597
You are really not that free in the US OB. Nowhere near as free as you seem to think you are. The US may have held first place on that area some time ago - but it seems you have forgotten that time changes things. And Bush pulls things down. He pulled you from 17th place in regards to press freedom to 53rd in 2006.
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