“An Oregon anti-terrorism bill would jail street-blocking protesters for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled effort to discourage anti-war demonstrations, critics say. … The bill contains automatic sentences of 25 years to life for the crime of terrorism. Critics of the bill say its language is so vague it erodes basic freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism under an extremely broad definition.”
—Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists

“[S]ome students at Bellingham High School have been taken out of class and sent to the principal’s office for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance as a way of protesting the war in Iraq.”
—ACLU Concerned With School Pledge Policy

Dissent is as American as it gets. Let’s pledge allegiance to that ideal, and not to some object.

Update [04 Apr]: Holy crap! Let’s not forget A Christian Response to AIDS.

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