I grew up a bit in Communism. You couldn't talk freely, the press was muted, you had 2 hours of TV every day in which the 'dear leader' was raised in the high heavens about how he went to a factory and that day production was raised 2000%, you weren't allowed to go to church, etc. ...and other anecdotal stuff such as cars only being allowed to drive on Sundays if you had even/odd numbers (It's the 20th? crap, I can't drive to the movie, my license plate starts with an even number). ...Or if you were a pilot in a hijacked plane and the powers that be placed a tanker full of gas at the end of the runway and ordered you to plow into it, unless you lifted off the ground and took people to freedom. Kill 140 souls, any price to pay for bad press/propaganda in the West. Now Communism only exists in a couple of places on the Earth, it's been banned from our thoughts and a wave of freedoms has washed over much of the countries previously behind the Iron Curtain. And how we rejoiced, and how we now cherish those freedoms which we were not allowed to have for half a century. I'm not sure if any of you can truly comprehend the idea of an absolutist regime without living in one, if you can understand the horrors of such places. Being beaten, tortured, hanged, murdered, electrocuted, force-fed excrements, ANYTHING to break your will... for you had signed a false testimony 20 beatings before, after you had been forced to stand up for 4 straight days... Freedom of speech, freedom in general, is indivisible, and to quote Kennedy, 'when one man is enslaved, all are not free.' A week ago or so some cartoons were published that stirred extremist-led hatred and propaganda. In countries where freedom is just as lacking as in those former Communist countries. As sensitive as the issue might be, I plead to you as someone who has seen both sides of what the world could be to protect that freedom of speech. While you should do so with common sense and decency, never forget that the mind of man can be sometimes all too inventive when it is bent on breaking his own soul. drac