Blog: Free Speech On Display — And Off-Limits

Commentary
First Amendment Watch

By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

The power of free speech and of the First Amendment could not be more on display this week — in very different ways — from Capitol Hill to Tiananmen Square, from the sidewalk to the World Wide Web.

Outside and inside the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., over the weekend and earlier, voices were raised freely, fiercely — and sometimes rudely…