In the USA, your domain can be seized by the government at any time without any trial, and without any recourse. If you report abuse you received from a police officer, you risk being killed by that officer and it being made to look like you were in the commission of a crime at the time. I can't think of a single basic human right that is universally respected in the USA, and this goes from the right of self defense to the right of self determination or the freedom of association.
I didn't mean to rebut you so directly, but was using your mention of these things that were widely reported in the US media as an opportunity to compare.
I'll take being caned over being killed any day.
There are always tradeoffs.