Home Of The Brave?

Link: Russia Web site owner killed after arrest | Politics and Law - CNET News. Appropriate to Labor Day, this news item about an opposition blogger in Russia being murdered should give each of us in this "Land of The Free and Home of the Brave" pause; we take our freedoms for granted. We get to go to work every day without worrying too much about whether we will be killed for our political views. Often we engage in petty political disputes over nothing at all, and we ignore situations in the world that are horrifying. As we Americans enjoy a holiday free from the oppression of evil men wearing Government hats, we should mourn a blogger's death. His crime? He expressed anti-government opinions in his blog.