Land of the Free?

Think again.

Another example of how our rights are being questioned or stripped away from us.

On September 20, a high school student and one of his teachers were questioned by the Secret Service about a poster the student had created for a class project on — of all things — The Bill of Rights. The villain here is clearly a Wal-Mart employee — yet another reason to avoid the store. You can read the details here, along with over 200 comments by outraged readers.

Matthew Rothschild, the author of the article for The Progressive magazine and Web site, has been keeping a list cases on his “McCarthyism Watch.” If you’d like to get angry, be sure to check out some of the articles there.

I guess you don’t need to be a blogger to get in trouble for speaking your mind.

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