I will be at the Minneapolis Restore the Fourth protest (with my wife, a first-generation immigrant, and our two youngest children). I've put a link to the main Restore the Fourth website on my Facebook wall, and heard that my oldest son, now living in New York City, will be at the New York City protest. We like our freedom in our family. We are not afraid to go out in public and express our opinions on public policy in the view of onlookers, cameras, and the police. (The Minneapolis protest is on the plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center, a familiar first amendment space in our state, which is right across from the City Hall and headquarters of the Minneapolis police.) Petitioning the government peacefully for the redress of grievances is what America is all about. Being out in public to indicate our support of the Bill of Rights and oversight of the government by elected officials is an appropriate way to celebrate Independence Day. See you there if you are in the Twin Cities.

By the way, there are other means we can use to work together to promote freedom. If you really want to be an idealistic but hard-headed freedom-fighter, mobilizing an effective popular movement for more freedom wherever you live, I suggest you read deeply in the free, downloadable publications of the Albert Einstein Institution,

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

remembering that the transition from dictatorship to democracy described in those publications is an actual historical process with recent examples around the world that we can all learn from. You can find publications in Arabic, Azeri, Belarusian, Burmese, Burma (Chin), Burma (Jing-paw), Burma (Karen), Burma (Mon), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, and Ukrainian there to share with your friends around the world.