Hmmm...US ranking in world; democracy, civil liberties etc

[LynnTheDem]

Not too bad, considering. Probably a lot worse than many Americans believe, though.

Heritage Foundation is conservative, of course and the Freedom House has as chairman the rightwingnut James Woolsey, so DON'T call me an anti-American traitor etc etc etc; these are rightwingnut figures. :P
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=232112&attrib_id=9514

Freedom House Democracy Ranking March 2005

Democracy Rank 13

Press Freedom Rank 9

Corruption Rank* 14

*Corruption rank means how transparent the government is, NOT how corrupt it is, lol!

http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm

Freedom House Political Rights Ranking March 2005

#13 USA

http://www.worldaudit.org/polrights.htm

Freedom House Civil Liberties Ranking March 2005

#13 USA

http://www.worldaudit.org/civillibs.htm


Heritage Foundation Index of Freedom 2001

*Numbers in brackets are 2000 ratings

Rank Economy
1 (1) Hong Kong
2 (2) Singapore
3 (7) Ireland
4 (3) New Zealand
5 (4) Luxembourg
5 (4) United States

http://www.hongkong.org/ehongkong/freesteconomy.htm

Heritage Foundation Index of Freedom 2005

Rank Economy
12 USA

http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Unitedstates

:wow: That's some drop. Haven't looked into the details yet to find out why such a drop.

The 2001 Corruption Perceptions Index

#16 USA

http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2001/cpi2001.html

The 2003 Corruption Perceptions Index

Country rank

#18 USA

http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2003/cpi2003.en.html

The 2004 Corruption Perceptions Index

#17 USA

http://www.transparency.org/pressreleases_archive/2004/2004.10.20.cpi.en.html

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[LynnTheDem]

4. Hey! You dropped your dot!

Heh. :D

[Walt Starr]

2. WE'RE NUMBER TWELVE! WE'RE NUMBER TWELVE! WE'RE NUMBER TWELVE!

Just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?

[LynnTheDem]

3. rotfl!!!

Well how about "Dirty Dozen! Dirty Dozen!"