Well, thanks ET, that's a mark of good character and I'm sorry if I inadvertently ruffled your feathers. If I did it intentionally, though, that's a different story. ;-)
I'm just one of those cranks, or a thick-skinned POS if you prefer, who have an abiding love for the great experiment started in 1776 or thereabouts, am for severe limitations on government as per the Constitution, and am really, really pissed off at how Americans have let all that go over the last 100 years or so. Liberty per se doesn't seem to have any value at all to most people, and that seems to include most Republicans. As you have probably gathered, I'm not a big fan of the inhabitants of our government, top to bottom.
It's all pretty sad, really. Why do we need a new law to restore the free speech we were supposedly guaranteed all along?
Things are screwed up. I fear that only a complete collapse will change things; it's not going to happen gradually.