First Amendment Library

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Interesting site for those who live in the USA and want to learn about the First Amendment and free speech. Many different cases including of of course JW. Here is their mission statement in part:  " The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them "

 

 

https://www.thefire.org/

[Tortuga]

Have you seen this?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_the_United_States#Jehovah.27s_Witnesses

 

 Former Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone jokingly suggested "The Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties." "Like it or not," observed American author and editor Irving Dilliard, "Jehovah's Witnesses have done more to help preserve our freedoms than any other religious group."

Edited November 15, 2016 by Tortuga