"Jim Walsh" <jim_S_N_P_O_AM_walsh_iii@operamail.NO.com> wrote in message 
news:0001HW.C037A18B000CA55BF0284550@family.alibis.com...
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:22:15 +0800, TXZZ wrote (in article
> <1141993335.158978.317180@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> ... Anyone who has lived in the US was probably subject to more rules 
>> (and
>> limitations on their freedom of speech) than anywhere else.
>
> More rules than North Korea? Really?

No question about it. If you look at the laws of any dictatorial country, 
they are surprisingly short and simple. It has been a universally known fact 
that the US has both the highest number of laws, rules and regulations on 
the books, and the largest army of lawyers trying to make sense of all that 
enormous legal mess.

>
> The Reporters without Borders posts a list of all countries in the order 
> of
> their press freedom.
>
> http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715
>
> It is true that there are 21 countries on the list which are considered 
> more
> free. The USA is tied for 22 with Belgium. The problem for your claim is 
> that
> North Korea is number 167 on the list, and145 countries are less free than
> the USA.
>
> -- 
> Love, Jim

He didn't say the USA is the least free country in the world. He just said 
USA is not as free as people used to think it is.
It's definitely not as free as it could and should be.

Mark


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