Food for thought; instead of trying make a statement against certain states or country, what about only/mostly patronizing those countries that are setting the high-bar for human rights via their *actions* (vs laws too often ignored) spanning a comprehensive set of criteria, including all that extrajudicial activity (incarceration, torture, etc)? For example, the Human Rights Data Project contains standards-based quantitative information on government practices for a wide range of internationally-recognized human rights, primarily drawing from the US Department of State and Amnesty International reports. http://www.humanrightsdata.com/p/faq.html http://www.humanrightsdata.com/p/data-documentation.html THE BEST & WORST OF 2010 http://www.humanrightsdata.com/2011/12/human-rights-in-2010-ciri-report.html All 14 of CIRI’s individual indicators of particular human rights can be summed into an overall human rights score. The best score a country can receive is 30. Top 13 Countries: Denmark [30] Iceland [30] Austria [29] New Zealand [29] Norway [29] Australia [28] Belgium [28] Finland [28] Liechtenstein [28] Luxembourg [28] Netherlands [28] San Marino [28] Sweden [28]