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In reply to the discussion: And Then There Were Three: Third Grand Jury Refuser Goes to Prison [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)former senior government officials, scholars, writers, and journalists"....The board is currently chaired by William H. Taft IV. Taft assumed chairmanship of the board in January 2009, succeeding Peter Ackerman. Other current board members include Kenneth Adelman, Farooq Kathwari, Azar Nafisi, Mark Palmer, P. J. O'Rourke, and Lawrence Lessig, while past board-members have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel Huntington, Mara Liasson, Otto Reich, Donald Rumsfeld, Whitney North Seymour, Paul Wolfowitz, Steve Forbes....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
Yeah, staunch defenders of 'freedom' all.
It's easy not to be a 'police state' when you've defined 'police state' as nazi germany.
Let's see: Mexico is 'free,' but venezuela & bolivia are only 'partly free'. South africa is 'free' but mozambique is only 'partly free'. Russia is 'unfree' but latvia is 'free'. mongolia is 'free' but china is 'unfree'. indonesia is 'free' & papua new guinea is only 'partly free' and the us has a free press (if you own one).
well, what the fuck ever.