"The War Against Words"... The end of free speech?

There's an important and timely piece by Jack Engelhard in Arutz Sheva, who comments on the freedom of speech issues going on in Canada (and all over the world, in reality.) Specifically, the column is about the war against free speech and how it's manifesting itself in the Mark Steyn/Macleans case in Canada and the far reaching effects this "war against words" is having on us.

You're probably thinking...yeah, but that's Canada, a liberal country; this is America and it could never happen here. Think again, O' you of little vision or foresight:

Can't happen here in the US? Well it has been happening here.

Conservative, pro-Western and pro Israel commentators like Robert Spencer (Religion of Peace? his latest), Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz consistently get shouted down from campus to campus. Some get physically roughed up and require bodyguards and double security when they dare to deliver a message that displeases peace-loving professors and students.

Some, like Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, are being sued in British courts. Ehrenfeld wrote the book Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed - And How To Stop It, and though the book was not published in the UK, it's still being taken up by the courts over there for defamation. Ehrenfeld refuses to recognize British jurisdiction and is fighting back through America's court system.

If Canada is on the verge of being "glorious and free" no more, "America Alone" (as Steyn has it) is being asked to remember that it is still the "land of the free" and "home of the brave." That's Steyn's thesis in a nutshell. He's counting on America to save the world from a campaign of tyranny being waged against words spoken and words written.

You best be following this story and others like it. If we're still our daddy's America; land of the free and home of the brave, what are we going to do about this encroaching slavery of thought and speech? Are we going to allow ourselves to be enslaved by the thought and speech police and willingly lapse into Amerika, a zero-tolerance zone, or is freedom of speech worth fighting for?