The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly, the freedom of...

The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly, the freedom of religion, equality for men and women under the rule of law, and the right to choose your own leaders -– whether you live in Baghdad or Damascus, Sanaa or Tehran.

President Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East

Notice how the freedom of peaceful assembly is supposedly a universal right? Unless you’re protesting in America evidently.

(via fearandwar)