Constitutional Law
May 12, 2015
The necessarily exorbitant cost of free speech
Long before the recent events in Garland, Texas, some members of PEN, an association of writers, were suffering from their own collective crisis of conscience relative to the free speech they so thoroughly enjoy.
Julie L. Kessler
PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582
Phone: (310) 403-0009
Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
Back in January, I wrote about the mass murder of 11 journalists and a police officer in Paris at the right bank offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly magazine, known for its satirical articles, cartoons and equal opportunity lampooning.
As I stated then, for those of us Francophones who have lived in France, or spent considerable time in Paris during the last two decades, the question, sadly, was not if something like wh...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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