look around the world today, there are so many countries, dictatorships to totalitarian systems, britocracies, even countries like china, which provide very little in the way of freedom for their people, if you just took the average based on the population of the world, i know what the mainstream would be. it wouldn't be very much in the way of individual rights. so we should jealously protect what we have here in the united states, which is a sthawtio, whn which at least thus far has been protecting those rights jealously, not for our benefit, though that should be, i submit, the sole purpose of a sp supreme court judge, for example, deciding supreme court cases, what does the constitution say for the people of america. but if one is going to consider the international implications, i would think it would be exactly the opposite of what mr. koh is saying, namely, that we should be concerned that any diminishment of the interpretation of our rights would negatively affect other people around the world. i don't care if the average is a lower standard. i wish that those countries would bring th