Introduction...
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
–John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
My main overriding message is far from new: that freedom of thought, opinion, and expression is the very basis of a fair society. That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people. ...