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.

We may have a long list of 5–4 decisions ahead of us, but I would predict we’ll see the “Justices United” in favor of freedom of speech until one of the (relatively young and healthy) majority retires or dies. ….. He said of the United States, “Nowhere in the world is the danger of plutocracy as formidable as it is here.” The politicians who made the IRS their party’s tool, who used patronage to extend its rule, who invariably dropped men from the tax-funded WPA payroll …

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