And as Floyd Abrams, an American lawyer and free-speech defender, notes, a book publisher, for example, will still be nervous about an author who has written a “libellous book”.
Refusing the straightjacket of political totalitarianism only to put on the straightjaket of religious conservative totalitarianism merely changes the design of the gag not its effectiveness.
They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth.
The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia, who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says North Korea's recent rhetoric presents are real and clear danger to the U.S. and its Asia Pacific allies.
Is there any difference in principle between the kind of moral reasoning and the kind of disagreements that arise when we debate about justice and the meaning of free speech and the nature of religious liberty?