The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. Get Involved!

John Philpot Curran

John Philpot Curran

By Alan Sexton

Fasten your seatbelts, folks, I’m on a tare.

The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. While the title I have chosen represents only one among many and differently attributed variations of this wise observation, accurate phrasing and attribution are of less importance when compared to the urgency and importance each one of us must place upon understanding–and embodying–the unchanging among variations message. Continue reading

Federal Trial Court Ignores First Amendment, Upholds Washington Regulation of Citizen-to-Citizen Speech

Seattle, WA— the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington upheld a Washington law that empowers the state government to monitor, collect and publicly disseminate information about the political activities of private citizens who do nothing more than urge their fellow citizens to take political action.  

“The First Amendment does not allow grassroots issue advocacy laws that arbitrarily interfere with the right to engage in political activity—but that’s exactly what this decision permits,” said Jeanette

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