Legal Challenge

I've already received a challenge! Is it legal under CBKS for me to put my opinion on a blog?
Well, gosh, I had a website for 3 years. (Suppose that means they did not see it!)
Let's see. It's Sunday, I'm not on a government computer, my views do not necessarily
represent the government (whose administrators intend to suspend me soon! for saying we have no academic freedom!)

I'm wasting time. True, I should be working on an essay on the Iranian nuclear program, but that isn't "official" work.

The real question is: do I have any civil rights when I'm not at work (and when I am at work)

Can the government (in the form of my latest supervisor) tell me what to do, say, or think in my own home? My last supervisor said he had the right to demand to know if I supported Hizbullah in the summer 2006 war on Lebanon? Specifically he claimed the right to know my personal views.

Kalam Fadi

This is a new blog! I just had a baptism-by-fire in a series of
blogs far away from my own perspective (American Prospect, pajamasmedia, Foreign policy) - first getting pummeled for daring to write about Hamas by the likes of Steve Emerson, second, in reference to whether or not we have "academic freedom" at my institution.

Arguing back with people who use the word Islamofascist doesn't work out well!

There are events and issues I'd like to discuss. Join on if you do too.

1) Today there was a great post about a couple marrying in a bar in Lebanon. On the up side the prospect of civil marriage is still being pursued. But somehow the pix at the bar make it an even more difficult argument for those who oppose it

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTQ-v3JdJk6ZrJ14YWRzsZYOys3g

2) Demonstrations commemorating Hariri. Does he live on in death? What kind of legacy is it?

3) Gaza! the Israeli Elections! Israeli number one priority appears to be - Gilad Shalit's return. Will Hamas agree?