I’ve noticed people going on about how were so lucky here in North America to be free and have the right to free speech but I don’t see it that way, sure were lucky to be relatively free but were not completely free. I believe that our right to free speech is slowly being taken away from us, It’s allowed in small dosages as long as it doesn’t cause any real harm to the government but when free speech actually starts to take off and there is enough people to actually create change, thats when the government tends to crack down on free speech or use the media to discredit it. I remember this one time, I was watching the news and President Bush was visiting somewhere and he had all these people around him praising him and then one guy saying bad things about him, that one guy was quickly arrested and taken away. Are we not allowed to speak against the president in his presence? It always seems we have a choice to do what we think is right but in the end we realize that we have no choice at all and whenever we speak out against the government we are the ones that suffer. This is not how democracy and a free society should work and I’m not saying that we don’t have the right to free speech because we do, we just seem to be losing what little rights we have recently in the name of ’security’ and the ‘war on terrorism’ which seem more and more like ways to control the population then to protect it.