Followup on WSJ letters today

My favorite quote from the Wall Street Journal Letters today (see Ivan’s earlier post) was from Christopher Monckton, former science and technical adviser to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Monckton wrote re the Rockefeller-Snowe letter to ExxonMobil:

After a decade of socialism, freedom of speech does not figure in the U.K. constitution. But let me cite the First Amendment to yours: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I call upon the two senators to live by those noble words.