Freedom of speech is collapsing everywhere we turn. There hasn't been a time in recent history that our leaders have tried to stamp out criticism as aggressively as they are now. Check out this story about a woman who is being prosecuted for haveing a bumper sticker that read: 'Bushit'.
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason…There can be on right of speech where any man…[is] compelled to suppress his honest sentiments.Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."--- Frederick Douglas
Democracy cannot function without public opinion and the freedom to express it!
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