Free speech in America

... means you can say all you want, but there are consequences.

If you want to protest the current administration, you can.
No problem.
However, you will get arrested and hurt.
Like this brave schoolteacher, who is pouring her heart and soul into the anti-war movement.
She protested in Washington today, and ended up arrested .... with her shoulder dislocated.

In my book, that does not make it a democracy. This is not how free speech works. Read Polly's site, what is going on right now should make your hair curl! America is turning into a typical autocratic undemocratic bully state. Full of the right platitudes, but in reality, a compliant populace is the only acceptable thing for those in power.

I'm so disappointed in this country.
As a kid, growing up in the wastelands of paternalistic fascist apartheid South Africa, I saw it as the shining beacon of democracy.
How wrong can a person be. I swallowed the PR hook line and sinker.
Many people still do.
Polly doesn't, any more. How could she???

Shame on the people in Washington (and the officers who carry out their policy), who think it's acceptable to dislocate the shoulder of a young woman because she protests this government and it's actions
Shame on you!!!!!!




Added on 19-9: Student tasered in Florida at Kerry speech, another consequence of free speech.
Dont speak to me of land of the free...