First Amendment in its Death Throes

Bush administration prepares to pull the plug.

In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.

It has become miserably clear that our government wants to close the marketplace of ideas. If you voted for Bush, you voted to limit all of our freedom to express ourselves. From a writer and a teacher, thanks a lot.

SPACEDARK