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Constitutional Law

Jan. 10, 2015

The murderous cost of free speech

January has gotten off to a terrible start. Almost every day since the new year, the news has delivered terror, murder and mayhem front and center.

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

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January has gotten off to a terrible start. Almost every day since the new year, the news has delivered terror, murder and mayhem front and center. In addition to the bomb blast near the police academy in Yemen's capital of Sana'a, which left at least 37 dead, there was the shooting murder of a doctor at a VA clinic in El Paso, Texas. Tuesday, in an area of central Istanbul heavily frequented by tourists in the historical section of Sultanhamet, a woman speaking English went into a polic...

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