RE: T-Shirt, Web Site Spark Challenges to U.S. Rights Since there is another anti-war march this Saturday, I thought some of you might be interested in this news snippet:
--- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Free speech, a key tenet of the U.S. Constitution, is facing unusual challenges in pre-war, post 9/11 America -- where wearing an anti-war T-shirt prompted an arrest and lampooning the vice president's wife drew a letter from a White House lawyer. [...] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=584&e=1&cid=584&u=/nm/20030306/pl_nm/rights_usa_dc --- I moved here from a repressive communist state some decades ago because my parents wanted me to have the freedom that some take for granted. Ironically, I feel as though the country I've loved for most of my life is starting to remind me of the birth place I once escaped. For two centuries, many great men and women have given much to protect our freedom of speech and rights. Don't let one president in four years destroy all that. It makes no sense to defend a country where citizens have no rights. If we ever lose the foundation from which this country was built, it may take hundreds if not thousands of years to get our freedom back. I came here to be a free man. I will to die here a free man. -- Thomas T. Thai / Whittier __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
