Our Federal Government’s Basic Purpose » Publications » Family Security Matters: "In February of 2009, legislation was introduced in the 111th Congress that would protect the First Amendment rights of United States citizens when faced with malicious lawsuits, brought against them in foreign courts, claiming defamation. The Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 is meant not only to secure and assure a U.S. citizen s First Amendment right to free speech in the aforementioned circumstance, but to serve as a tool in guaranteeing our nation s sovereignty under constitutional law. As of this writing, Senate Bill 449, officially titled as introduced as A Bill to Protect Free Speech, languishes in the Senate Judiciary Committee. We all must ask why.
The Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 (the short title for S449) is meant to protect writers, authors, lecturers and any other U.S. citizen against libel tourism, a phrase emanating from a lawsuit over the book Funding Evil, by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, explained in a short film titled The Libel Tourist and in an article titled, A Federal Law is Needed to Deter Libel Tourism, by Daniel J. Kornstein. Mr. Kornstein refers to libel tourism as:"
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