From the UK: clause creating a new offence of ‘glorifying’ terrorism” defeated...

In England every note of patriotic music, nationalist poetry or libertarian verse was in jeopardy:

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air…
…No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave...

Every piece of art, sculpture or photography was at risk. Every protest, dissent or opposition was in peril. Free speech would no longer be free.

The defense came neither from the left nor from the impoverished. The British House of Lords defeated Tony Blair’s terror bill by rejecting a “clause creating a new offence of ‘glorifying’ terrorism.” Read: Lords defeat Blair over terror bill

The Patriot Act may make the American freethinker a criminal.