Jose wrote:

calling it indeed the fifth freedom.


What are the first four freedoms? (and what are the ones after that?)

I've never heard the expression before.

From:

http://www.icao.int/icao/en/chicago_conf/intro.html

These Five Freedoms of the Air a

Freedom of peaceful transit.
Freedom of non-traffic stop (to refuel, repair, or refuge).
Freedom to take traffic from the homeland to any country.
Freedom to bring traffic from any country to the homeland.
Freedom to pick up and discharge traffic at intermediate points.

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"You can support the troops but not the president"
--Representative Tom Delay (R-TX), during the Kosovo war.