[Tench_Coxe]

"None of this requires hostility toward Europe. It requires clarity about sovereignty. The First Amendment is not a parochial relic. It is a constitutional commitment that speech is not a privilege to be managed by bureaucrats. When foreign governments seek to export censorship through economic leverage, Congress has both the authority and the obligation to respond."

I beg to differ. Impressment was a catalyst for the War of 1812. If Europe is using such roundabout ways to force its whims in Americans (or doing so in concert with elements in the US), I would equate it to what the British were doing pre 1812.

[cgbg]

Good post.

Foreign governments seeking to impose restrictions on Americans in America is an act of war.