[TomB]

These days, I would pick a country that does not have the budget to maintain the kind of police state we have here.

Perhaps you might want to review what actually goes on in REAL police states, to call this country one is beyond delusional.

[eno_]

OK, sorry... we're freer than North Korea. The Founders would be soooo proud of us.

Do you really think a state without financial privacy is free?

Do you really think a state without communications privacy is free?

Do you really think a press that routinely fails to report, for example, the name of the FBI agent that ran over Hatfill's foot, or the cop that wrote him a fraudulent ticket, is a free press?

Do you think a state with as much property confiscation going as we have is free?

Do you think our federal government is within Constitutional limits? And if the Constitution is routinely ignored, are we free?