Free Sppech Zones

This is something I never really paid any attention to until today when I saw an interesting piece on a libertarian video blog about the free speech zones being erected around places where people are protesting. Basically, if you wish to protest anything about the current administration or even congress, you will be corralled into a cage often times far away from and out of sight of the people or proceedings being protested. This is a disgusting breech of the first amendment. The reason the first amendment was added to the Constitution was to make sure the government would not be deaf to the voice of the people. It is one of those sacred rights that has allowed us to live free of tyranny for so long. In times of increased threat of tyranny in our own nation we are in high need of the freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble. These rights have no power when they have been locked away in a concrete barrier far from view, as was the case at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. We must not be afraid of speech. Outlawed speech is what created our nation. Our founders knew that when the government becomes tyrannical, the people must have the tools to fight that tyranny. The freedom of speech and peaceful assembly are first, and the right to bear arms is second. When the power of words fail to defeat tyranny, the power of the sword is all that is left, and they have nearly taken that away from us. It seems this form of censorship has only increased under the current administration. We must not allow our rights to be trampled under the charging pachyderm of tyranny.