I have lived in more than a few countries over the past ten years, which has helped me to understand my own country better, both in terms of what we do wrong, a

I have lived in more than a few countries over the past ten years, which has helped me to understand my own country better, both in terms of what we do wrong, and also, what we do right. > Your mention of fundamental human rights is a bit odd; the US (for constitutional reasons) has not fully signed up to the UDHR. Eleanor Roosevelt helped to draft the UDHR, and the United States voted in favor of its adoption in 1948. That said, we have many problems in the US. Civil forfeiture is one of those, as are privatized prisons -- and the general barbarism of our penal system. But none of those are caused by free speech, and none of them would be solved by eliminating it.