Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, most free
Turkey, Egypt, Iran among most repressive
Pakistan world's most deadliest country for journalistsFrom Jim Lagnese:
Who knew? Botswana and Niger are now freer than the US. Namibia too.
From Reporters Without Borders:
“This year’s index finds the same group of countries at its head, countries such as Finland, Norway and Netherlands that respect basic freedoms.
“It is no surprise that the same trio of countries, Eritrea, Turkmenistan and North Korea, absolute dictatorships that permit no civil liberties, again occupy the last three places in the index. This year, they are immediately preceded at the bottom by Syria, Iran and China, three countries that... have been sucked into an insane spiral of terror, and Bahrain and Vietnam, quintessential oppressive regimes.
Several European countries fall far behind rest of continent... The crackdown on protests after President Lukashenko’s reelection caused Belarus to fall 14 places to 168th. At a time when it is portraying itself as a regional model, Turkey (148th) took a big step backwards and lost 10 places. Far from carrying out promised reforms, the judicial system launched a wave of arrests of journalists that was without precedent since the military dictatorship.
While Libya (154th) turned the page on the Gaddafi era, Yemen succumbed to violence between President Ali Abdallah Saleh’s opponents and supporters and languished in 171st position. The future of both of these countries remains uncertain, and the place they will allow the media is undecided. The same goes for Egypt, which fell 39 places to 166th... Already poorly ranked in 2010, Syria fell further in the index, to 176th position...
Pakistan (151st) was the world’s deadliest country for journalists for the second year running.
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en.rsf.orgPhotos - Geert Wilders, Party For Freedom leader - Netherlands, Heinze Christian-Strache, Freedom Party leader - Austria, Iran's Ahmadinijad, Turkey PM Erdogan. (Photo credit - Blogbeliefnet.com)
Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, most free
8 comments:
According to Heritage Foundation, the US comes in tenth place in economic freedom. Rediff.Com business has the US at number twelve for personal freedom. http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-worlds-30-countries-and-personal-freedom/20111228.htm
Shining city upon a hill? Freest country on earth? You decide!
Will:
If I can't carry my combat commander concealed, how free is it? The countries listed ahead of us have more regulation. Every time someone has to ask permission to do something, they lose freedom. Every day you have to work to pay the government is a day in servitude. I don't see how they can stand on this philosophically.
For instance, the UK has over 4 million surveillance cameras. The only countries that are worse are China, Russia, Malaysia and Singapore. In England, they can do fingerprint checks when they pull you over.
In the US, surveillance cameras are on the rise. Probably the bigger threat is the NSA, which snoops all digital and voice transmissions.
Enemy of the State is a reality and in some places, THX 1138 is almost a documentary.
You have a good point, Jim, but with the green gestapo in the EPA, enviruses in special interest groups, and commies in government education, (sweden has school choice!) we aren't far behind other countries in regulations. If Obama is re-elected, you can bet your Smith and Wesson's we will surpass the aforementioned countries. But that is stating the obvious.
Obama will not be re-elected.
Never say never
This is a meaningless bullshit phony article about nothing written by idiots.
There is no way that 3rd world shit-hole nations like Botswana, Ghana and Niger have more press freedom than the U.S.
Hell, they don't even have toilets let alone know how to read.
"If Obama is re-elected, you can bet your Smith and Wesson's we will surpass the aforementioned countries. But that is stating the obvious."--And how much better will we fare if Newtie Patootie, Mitt, or LunaRick beat him? Not much, if at all.
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