Today there is a simple case. The comic Bassem Yousef, who is known as Egypts Jon Stewart, is being prosecuted for various non-crimes: insulting the president, spreading rumors, propagating liesall charges that mean only that the powers that be dont like what he is saying. Those powers know that
the best we can do and it is important that we do this is to stand for our own principles of freedom of speech, press, assembly, trade unions, religion, and free elections. The Bassem Yousef prosecutions (one must now use the plural) are indefensible and should be met with loud and repeated U.S. p