Support Freedom of Speech PETITION

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Dixie Chicks - Freedom of Speech Threatened!
Target: Dixie Chicks, Rep. Catherine Ceips
Sponsor: Tyler Andrew


Support Freedom of Speech!A new assault on free speech arose today in the South Carolina State Legislature. In what is clearly an attempt to curb our civil liberties, State Rep. Catherine Ceips wants the Dixie Chicks "to apologize" to South Carolina military families for anti-Bush sentiments expressed by the lead singer in London. What is happening to America, if we cannot exercise our civil liberties and speak out when we disagree with our government?Ceips said that she plans to introduce a resolution to condemn comments by Dixie's lead singer Natalie Maines who supposedly "told an audience at a London show that she was ashamed" that Pres. Bush "was from Texas, the group's home state." Ceips said if the resolution "wins House approval," she'll "send the resolution to the Dixie Chicks.""To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong,is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt speaking against Wilson's crackdown on dissent after the U.S. entered WWI. Sign this petition to the Dixie Chicks letting them know you support their freedom of speech, and tell Rep. Ceips that you are concerned about her willingness to overlook and seriously undermine the principles on which the United States of America was founded....(go to the petition site)