1.   And human rights groups on the left and the right continue raising questions about basic freedoms in that country.

2.   And, harder still, do we have the tools to change it without destroying basic freedoms and without dividing a largely shared culture into warring fragments?

3.   A statutory restraint on this basic freedom should be expressed clearly and unambiguously.

4.   But even his adversaries call him a democrat, who will not tamper with the basic freedoms South Africans enjoy, in large part thanks to Mandela.

5.   But in truly democratic countries, people are guaranteed basic freedoms.

6.   But when it gets in the business of picking and choosing acceptable thoughts, it is treading on a most basic freedom.

7.   Critics rightly saw the proposed rules as potential threats to our basic freedoms.

8.   Efforts to detect, punish and deter terrorism remain imperative if basic freedoms and security are to be preserved.

9.   In reality, this has meant that the government of the day can, without reference to the electorate, rescind basic freedoms.

10.   In the name of religious dogma, Sheik Badri ignores basic human freedoms as much as the Rev. King embraced them.