Free Speech Watch|All civil liberties must be respected, even in times of national emergency, however, the Freedom of Speech afforded by the U.S. Constitution is arguably the most important. In these days of the so-called “Patriot Act” our free speech is constantly under serious attack. This website monitors the efforts to protect our free speech. It also monitors the People’s reaction to those efforts.

… press;” during the twentieth century within the United States this notion developed that the press had a social responsibility, and because if this it became the only industry protected by the Bill of Rights (Siebert et al. …. But footage displayed within the documentary shows peoples right to freedom of speech being taken away from them. The police began making all of the city of Seattle a no-protest-zone, and used tear gas on people who were sitting on the ground …

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