"The world," she [Condoleezza Rice] said, "should apply what Natan Sharansky calls the 'town square test'.

"If a person can walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a free society, not a fear society. We cannot rest until every person living in a 'fear' society has finally won their freedom."