You saw no reference go free spèech in any of the reports from Paris huh? You must be living on Mars. I saw plenty of references to free speech in the media reports on the Paris rally including a report from your own CBS news. Even Jon Stewart got in on the act with an attack on Obama for not showing up on a free spèech rally.
Why was Ted Cruz not there? When did Ted Cruz become the Secretary of State or a member of the State Department or the cabinet? It’s the executive that represents the US government and caries out foreign affairs, not the legislature who are there to make laws.
Btw, there is no need to keep using caps. They don’t make your points any less idiotic.
Correction : CBS should read CBS news
Ted Cruz doesn't have to be Secretary of State or a member of the State Department, or a cabinet member to attend a rally overseas. If it was that important to him, he would have gotten on a damn flight and attended the rally.
He didn't attend because it wasn't important to him. And it wasn't important to him for the same reason it wasn't important to anyone else in the leadership of the U.S. government: U.S. leaders don't attend political rallies in foreign countries, period.