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.

The First Amendment does not protect a fire chief who was disciplined after commenting on what he considered the inadequate funding of his department at a news conference at the scene of a fatal fire, a federal appeals court ruled today. … “Here, under circumstances which indicate that Foley was speaking as Chief, members of the Board [of Selectmen] did not violate Foley’s free speech right when they concluded that it was inappropriate for Foley to address budgetary and …

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