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Global freedom declined for a fifth straight year in 2010 as authoritarian regimes dug in worldwide and crime and unrest plagued democracies like Mexico, a US watchdog said Thursday.
In "Freedom in the World 2011" the Washington-based Freedom House said it had documented the longest continuous period of decline since it began compiling the annual index nearly 40 years ago.
"This should be a wake-up call for all of the world's democracies," said Freedom House director David Kramer, who served as assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights under former president George W. Bush.
"Our adversaries are not just engaging in widespread repression, they are doing so with unprecedented aggressiveness and self-confidence, and the democratic community is not rising to the challenge."
Elliot Abrams, who served as the point man for Bush's high-profile efforts to promote democracy beginning in 2005, faulted the current administration for not linking human rights to bilateral relations.
Freedom in decline worldwide: US report
Decline since the vitriol of Gulf War 2. Attacking freedom has its costs. It only emboldens the despots... everywhere.
Obama, his party and the idiots around the world that supported the likes of Obama, Durbin, The War is Lost Reid, Kerry, Levin, Pelosi, Dead Kennedy and Gerhard Schroeder can take a bow. Their work has born fruit.
BTW... Where have all the protesters gone? The close Gitmo, anti-war crowd? They've done vanished. Where are the nightly death toll reports? My how the journOlists changed their spots in January 2009.
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