George,

In response to the query: "In this morning’s Daily Progress, Kevin Lynch questions the free speech monument and says that it is “ironic that a free-speech monument [would] be erected in front of the governing seat of a city that is ‘a spot of liberalism in an increasingly reactionary state.’” Do you believe liberals are in less need of free speech than other folk?"

No. I always encounter people who try to shut me up. And they are always Democrats. The Republicans usually want to discuss our differences in opinions, the Democrats don't want to hear about it.

Ellora Young (electronic mail, May 25, 2005)