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.

Even petition, the freedom least-often named by our fellow citizens in First Amendment Center surveys dating back to 1997, has stepped out more in public of late — from petitions in several states for or against gay marriage, to a recent … Police say such orders, which if violated may bring criminal charges, can be narrowly-tailored to apply just to crime-fighting needs. In both cases, there’s the danger that that even well-intentioned tools against gangs and/or mass …

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