We want to be able to assess whether there is a profiling situation. This may be, again, one of those law enforcement techniques that promises more than it delivers.

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

We have significant concerns about the potential infringement on the right to associate. These kinds of costs would absolutely chill the public's ability to gather.

The Michigan courts would not acknowledge this man's First Amendment rights, but we're confident that the federal court will. He was punished for insisting on the right to practice Catholicism and refusing conversion to the Pentecostal faith.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.