>-The freedom to know that everyone can go to school and university as long as they want, independent on their own or their family's income and assets, and independent on their sports performance

One thing that I'd add to this list, that I know exists in all of ex-Yu countries and probably in most of the Mediterranean: loitering is a time honored way of socializing, not illegal at all.

>A Swedish writer, who happened to have some "left" sympathy, was arrested a few years ago in New York, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. His crime? He had overlooked that he broke US laws by flying via USA on his way some South American country. He had been denied the right to visit USA because of his political sympathies, which he accepted because he did not want to go to USA anyway. However, nobody told him that this baning also included travelling using USA only for transit. Is this what you call freedom?

This got me baffled. Isn't the area of the airport beyond the passport control legally a no-man's land, i.e. exterritorial? I think the guy did not de iure step on American soil. It's just that when it's against the lefties, everything's legal.