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  "Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech"
Joseph Lieberman and Arlen Specter

Wall Street Journal
July 14, 2008

Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism. A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

That free marketplace faces a threat. Individuals with alleged connections to terrorist activity are filing libel suits and winning judgments in foreign courts against American researchers who publish on these matters. These suits intimidate and even silence writers and publishers.... MORE>>>>
    
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The Committee on the Present Danger is a non-partisan organization with one goal – to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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The "danger" we face – which was "present" well before most Americans realized it on September 11, 2001 – is the determination of militant Islamists to impose their totalitarian views on, first, the Muslim world, and, then, the world at large.

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Iran Update  

“Internet usage is about to become even riskier in Iran.  Iran’s parliament, the majles, is reportedly considering a new law to greatly expand penalties on what the regime deems inappropriate uses of the web...." MORE>>>

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