The commission may have a right to do it, but it may not be necessary. People don't get elected to public office with a promise to not get bored.

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

The truth is, it goes much further than that,

Governments don't tax the exercise of constitutional freedoms, that's why we have municipal budgets and publicly funded police departments. People don't pay to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is contradictory to how the Constitution works.

I can't believe the doctors in Collier County would agree to practice with one hand tied behind their back. I'm not sure (carving out treatment exceptions) is permitted, and it's definitely unethical.

If he wants to build a town and encourage like-minded people to come and live there, that's fine. We get into problems where he tries to exercise governmental authority.

If there was a chapter of the ACLU in Collier County, we would be looking at a wide range of issues in the area. There are too many civil liberties issues for us to focus on.

This is just more posturing by Florida politicians to look tough on crime and on people with past felony convictions. What does denying funds to low-income people to save on energy costs have to do with fighting crime?

It sounds like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem.

This lawsuit is not about the Pledge of Allegiance. It is about his right to choose not to stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.