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.

In late October, lawyers Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams exercised their First Amendment right of free speech when they posted a YouTube video criticizing the proposed cap-and-trade emissions program. … On all four counts, the EPA actions against the San Francisco attorneys violate the law. Obviously, even if the EPA did not learn anything from the Hansen public affairs fiasco at NASA, the election of President Barack Obama and his several pronouncements on freedom of …

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How, in God’s name, can Germany accept any evidence from the U.S. Justice Department who suborned perjury in the first trial, withheld evidence, obstructed justice, and violated John Demjanjuk’s civil rights? SHAME ON GERMANY AND SHAME ON THE U.S.A. What has happened to ….. Many Americans avoid all controversial speech and voluntarily refrain from exercising First Amendment rights at work. Hate laws would extend this dangerous minefield to the national political scene. …

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When you practice polygamy in accordance with your religious beliefs, you are (or should) also be accorded additional First Amendment Rights. For some reason, though, this argument seems to be ignored for the most part. …

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A formal plan will be unveiled in early 2010 but one proposal being discussed is deeply alarming as it threatens First Amendment freedoms. The FCC is contemplating the notion that some or all of the electromagnetic spectrum occupied by …

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… find support for just about any proposition in the Court’s multifarious Establishment Clause pronouncements, a claim that display of the national motto or the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First Amendment borders on frivolous.” …

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When the Founding Fathers drafted the First Amendment they had not the slightest inkling that one day an alien culture would come to our shores…an alien culture whose adherents feel free to capture innocent non-believers and slice …

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The downside to the First Amendment. Is Scientology a religion? Whether or not one finds this ideology to be considered a legitimate religion, the fact is that thousands of people follow it. Scientology became a huge phenomenon when …

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Bill of Rights. Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble … I communicate with EVERY branch of the United States Military, including but not limited to the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marines, so if you see a language that looks funny I am not just USA thank you for asking:) What language …

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The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is one of the most important amendments added with the Bill of Rights. The text of that amendment is also quite simple: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” …

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Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution? The Declaration of Independence? The Bill of Rights? Did Muslims fight for this country’s freedom from England? No. Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free …

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