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Free Afghanistan, free Palestine, free speech - George Galloway - Winnipeg, Canada - 26th Nov 2010
George Galloway speaking in Winnipeg after his triumphant return to Canada, overturning his ban.

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False Flag Legislation to Turn Free Speech into a Privilege
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Mary Beth Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. Now 61, she's quit her part-time job as a nurse and will travel the country telling her story.

Tinker will visit her first school Monday in Philadelphia. After that, she's scheduled to travel by RV to 18 states and the District of Columbia as part of what's being called the "Tinker Tour." She'll log 10,000 to 15,000 miles, the equivalent of driving across the country three to five times, before her tour ends Nov. 25 in Kansas City, Mo. Along the way, she'll stop at more than three dozen locations, most of them schools, and she plans a tour of schools in western states in the spring. Her message: Students should take action on issues important to them.

"It's better for our whole society when kids have a voice," Tinker said in a recent interview at her home in Washington.

The tour, which will include participating in Constitution Day celebrations Tuesday in Philadelphia and visiting her old school in Iowa, won't mark the first time Tinker has talked to young people. After a career as a piano technician, a nurse and then a nurse organizer for the Service Employees International Union, Tinker started speaking more to students about a decade ago.

She tells young people "You, one person, can make a difference," and "You're important. You are someone."

She said standing up isn't just "practice for the future," but something children can do today. And students have a variety of concerns, she said, whether it's school uniforms, bans on chewing gum or, at one school she visited, the fact there wasn't enough sand in the sandbox.

The fall leg of Tinker's tour is expected to cost about $50,000, and it's backed by a number of First Amendment and journalism groups, including Washington's Newseum, which donated $3,500 for black armbands that Tinker will sign and give out. The American Civil Liberties Union, which took Tinker's case to the Supreme Court originally, is among the organizations endorsing the trip.

The tour's major sponsor is the Student Press Law Center, a Washington nonprofit advocate for student First Amendment rights. A lawyer for the group, Mike Hiestand, will join Tinker on the tour to answer legal questions and talk to student newspaper groups about censorship and other issues.

Hiestand, who has spent more than 20 years working with student journalists, called Tinker a "rock star." He said he had been talking about her case with students long before meeting her about three years ago. The 1969 decision in her case, he said, was a high-water mark for student speech. The decision famously says students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But Hiestand said that since then, the law has changed drastically and students' rights have been curtailed.

Tinker said that "every time you turn around," it seems there's a case where "a kid is getting in trouble for something that they're expressing." But she said she'll tell students to stand up anyway: "You have a lot of power if you will use it."

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A video comments section for free speech.
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Fight For Faith Religion In The Ranks White House Opposing Free Speech In The Military!

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The U.S. Supreme Court has already affirmed that corporations have free speech rights, but a new challenge to Obamacare could also declare that non-human businesses have a right to religious freedom.

America's highest court is expected to take up a fight soon over the hotly contested requirement in Obamacare that businesses pay for insurance that covers 100% of workers' birth control. Craft chain Hobby Lobby and at least 30 other for-profit companies with religious owners have filed lawsuits claiming the mandate violates their religious beliefs.

It might seem odd that a business would get to exercise its religious beliefs. But this is America, and corporations often get to be people, too.

In its bombshell Citizens United case of 2010, the high court found the Federal Elections Commission violated companies' right to engage in "political speech" by limiting the money they could spend promoting political candidates. That decision caused a lot of outrage but fell in line with a legal doctrine known as "corporate personhood" that says businesses have some of the same rights people do.

For their part, Hobby Lobby and the other businesses fighting the contraception mandate say it violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That act puts the kibosh on laws that put a big burden on people's religious beliefs or the beliefs of businesses, depending on how the Supreme Court rules.

The Supreme Court is expected to take up the new Obamacare fight because two appeals courts ruled in opposite ways on the birth control mandate issue. Philadelphia's federal appeals court ruled in July that "for-profit, secular corporations cannot engage in religious exercise." That court found there was a "total absence of caselaw" suggesting corporations had the right to religious freedom.

In that case, a Mennonite family named the Hahns who owned a company called Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. was fighting the contraception requirement. Here's what the court said:

We accept that the Hahns sincerely believe that the termination of a fertilized embryo constitutes an "intrinsic evil and a sin against God to which they are held accountable" ... and that it would be a sin to pay for or contribute to the use of contraceptives which may have such a result. We simply conclude that the law has long recognized the distinction between the owners of a corporation and the corporation itself.

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Uncensored Free Speech
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The Great Dissent arrives just when its insight is needed. To borrow from the books subject, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., it might even be a case of proximity and immediacy.

The book examines the jurisprudence of Holmes, who in 1919 began to reshape the law on free speech and First Amendment values in what author Thomas Healy considers the most important dissent in American law.

A Harvard law professor with roots back to the nations founding, Holmes initially came to free-speech issues with a fair amount of hostility toward the speakers the government was prosecuting.

In this period, the Supreme Court wrestled with several cases on this topic, and the outcomes were all the same: convictions upheld. The book centers on two cases from 1919. In Schenck v. United States, Holmes wrote the majority opinion, upholding the convictions of socialists who had created and distributed a leaflet criticizing the draft. Less than a year later, Holmes dissented in the almost identical case of Abrams v. United States, arguing that free-speech rights outweighed the vague potential for their words to cause harm.

What led Holmes to make such an about-face becomes the focus of the book.

Healy has made ample use of Holmes extensive correspondence with other intellectual and legal luminaries of his day to try to figure out how the justices outlook changed so markedly in less than a year. The answer has to do with Holmes wide reading and his encounters with the likes of Learned Hand, an influential federal judge; fellow Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who was to join in Holmes Abrams dissent; and future justice Felix Frankfurter.

Its impossible to know for sure, but Healy seems right in thinking that these men influenced Holmes and inspired his personal transformation, which Healy believes led to a transformation of First Amendment law. That second transformation, however, took decades to arrive. Holmes (and Brandeis) remained in the minority, dissenting in free-speech cases in the years after Schenck and Abrams. The court vacillated on these issues until a 1969 case, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

The tentacles of Holmes views on free speech have touched just about every First Amendment decision in the past 90 years.

As courts confront new challenges, particularly for free speech and the free flow of information, they will continue to look to Holmes for guidance. And Holmes is still providing an applicable rationale for relying on the marketplace of ideas.

Roy S. Gutterman is director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He wrote for the Washington Post.

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