Freezing freedom of speech

Last year, a law professor emeritus from Princeton gave a speech on the legal overreach of the Bush administration, from signing statements to foreign policy to warrantless wiretapping. This year, Professor Walter F. Murphy is on the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. From the blog post detailing the experience, he describes his discussion with the American Airlines clerk:

One of the two people to whom I talked asked a question and offered a frightening comment: "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that." I explained that I had not so marched but had, in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution. "That'll do it," the man said. (emphasis mine)

Over the line, Smokey! notes that Professor Murphy is not exactly a flaming liberal, either.

A video of Professor Murphy's "terrorist" speech can be found at the Princeton University Web Archives, or by using the following links: 56K 350K 56K 350K