Poor. [1, 2] Pretty much everything bad that the US does, these countries do worse by an order of magnitude. We use hyperbole to compare Snowden to political p

Poor. [1, 2] Pretty much everything bad that the US does, these countries do worse by an order of magnitude. We use hyperbole to compare Snowden to political prisoners in these countries, but I imagine that idea would seem pretty ridiculous to a real political prisoner in China or NK or Russia. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy_Index&oldid=547250197#Democracy_index_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy_Index&ol... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World