"In one of the most egregious violations of the First
Amendment’s guarantee of free speech seen in quite some time, Tarek Mehanna, an
American Muslim, was convicted this week in a federal court in Boston and
then sentenced yesterday to 17 years in prison. […] At some point in the
future, I believe history will be quite clear about who the actual criminals
are in this case: not Mehanna, but rather the architects of the policies he
felt compelled to battle and the entities that have conspired to consign him to
a cage for two decades."
