Free Speech (Freedom Tech)

From Common Sense:

"Monarchical governments, it is true, are never long at rest: the crown itself is a temptation to enterprising ruffians at home; and that degree of pride and insolence ever attendant on regal authority, swells into a rupture with foreign powers in instances where a republican government . . . would negotiate the mistake."

" . in absolute governments the king is law, [but] in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."

[US] Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent 

Andrew Gach - 08:55pm Apr 9, 2003 EST Guest User 

The New York Times, April 9, 2003 Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent By ERIC LICHTBLAU 

A growing number of America's most informed conservative writers correctly point out that the Founding Fathers established a Constitutional Republic in this land, and not a Democracy. The Constitutional Republic is a nation which operates under the rule of established law and enforces that law without prejudice, whereas a Democracy operates as a fluid form of government that changes from time-to-time on the whim of 51% or more of the voters. The citizens who make up the militias are often accused of wanting to overthrow the Government of the United States. 

By Lee Douglas, Reuters, 4/4/2003

PORTLAND, Oregon -- An Oregon antiterrorism bill would jail street-blocking protesters for at least 25 years in what critics consider a thinly veiled effort to discourage antiwar demonstrations.

The bill has met strong opposition, but lawmakers expect a debate on the definition of terrorism and the value of free speech before a vote by the state Senate judiciary committee, whose chairman,

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 Posted: 8:10 PM EST (0110 GMT)

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) -- Two high school teachers said Tuesday they have been placed on leave for refusing to remove war-related student artwork posted in their classrooms.

Highland High School teachers Allen Cooper and Geoffrey Barrett said they were told Monday night that they would be suspended if they did not remove the posters.

PayPal vs. PATRIOT
by Thomas L. Knapp

Doesn't the USA PATRIOT Act make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? The Ministry of Truth said that it would protect us from terror, and the Ministry of Truth wouldn't lie, you know.

Yesterday, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri swung into action against one of those evil terrorist groups that USA PATRIOT was intended to protect us from:

 Pentagon downed Web site, Al-Jazeera editor says
 Graeme SMith (GLobe & Mail)
 March 29, 2003

 For journalists inside the Al-Jazeera newsroom in Doha, Qatar, it was
 obvious who attacked their Web site this week. The Arabic-language
 television network had just launched its English site and was publishing
 the first pictures of Iraq's prisoners of war on Tuesday when a barrage of
 junk messages crippled the site. The attacks continued all week. One

Recently (3/29/03) Wal Mart was contacted about selling American Flag pins

    "We apologize, but we only offer products made by our "Authorized" vendors, which would not include you."

Posted: 29/03/2003 at 11:21 GMT

Much-loved computer columnist Henry Norr has been suspended by the Hearst Corporation - owners of The San Francisco Chronicle - for expressing political views on his day off.

I am the flag of the  United States of America.

My name is Old Glory.

I fly atop the world's tallest buildings.

I stand watch in America's halls of justice.

I fly majestically over institutions of learning.

I stand guard with power in the  world.

Look up and see me.

I stand for peace, honor, truth and  justice.

I stand for freedom.

I am confident.

I am arrogant.

I am  proud.

When I am flown with my fellow banners,

My head is a little  higher,