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.

It seems that these university students had less understanding of the principles of free speech than the high school junior, Austin Hawes. Time and again, I read or hear of this type of disruption. An Islamic speaker was shouted down at an southeastern college. … As I mentioned in my blog of February 16, many in the United States now clamor for those with religious beliefs to stay out of public discourse because “religion has no bearing on civil rights. …

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