No one should be arrested or threatened with their life for exposing people or speaking their mind. Unfortunately even here in the U.K. people like Julian Assange are locked up for the crime of journalism exposing the bad actions of multiple world governments. This is something I would have regarded as unthinkable here many years ago.
However atleast when governments are too much, people will eventually have had enough and push back. I honestly think everyone I have met from your country are consistently some of the nicest people on earth... in some ways I think that might be your biggest problem!
