"Say What You Like, Just Don't Say it Here" (My Response a New York Times Article)

I just wrote this for school and realized it would be a good thing to put on my blog. So here's my history homewrok (haha):

Campbell Habetz
10/23/07
Respnse to article “Say What You Like, Just Don’t Say it Here”
From The New York Times

Summary:
The government has taken legal action in federal court against “irresponsible expressions of opinion by prominent aliens.” The two cases are very controversial because of their ties to the First Amendment. The first case concerns the government’s decision to deny a work visa to a Muslim scholar who had plans to speak at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. The second case deals with two men who watched Al Manar- the television station of a “radical Islamic Shiite group” called the Hezbollah.

Response:
Wow. What can I say? A man who has spoken in America multiple times before is denied the right to speak here because of his “position of prominence within (a) country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity.” What? He’s a “Swiss philosopher and Muslim intellectual” who “is the voice of reason, of logic, of tolerance and common sense.” Well, then, he donated money to a charity that later turned out to be giving money to a terrorist organization. Of course he would have known that before any government official! Moreover, two people are in trouble with the government for watching a television station that the administration doesn’t agree with. Is this a democracy or a dictatorship? Hey Bush Administration, ever heard of the Bill of Rights? Well, I guess if you have no problem walking all over the Constitution then the Bill of Rights is hardly worth your attention!