Hands off our freedom of political speech

Who are the greatest contemporary threats to the First Amendment’s protected freedoms of religion, speech, assembly and petition? If you said political leaders like President Obama and Sen. Charles Schumer, you got it right.

Speaking in New York a few weeks ago, David Axelrod, Obama’s political communications brain, said this: “I hope that one of the things we can do, when we win this election, is use whatever tools are available, up to and including a constitutional amendment, to turn this back.”