Could you give an example? I am sure anything you can share will be beneficial to the discussion. And what do you mean when you say "Actually enforced"?

Thank you for your response, you have given a very fair critique of my OP. I first want to clear up a few things about my OP.

" You seemed to imply that patriotism must include questioning the countries choices as much as or over blindly following them whenever necessary."

What I meant, is that patriotism, is more than uncritical support for ones country or government, in this you are correct, but I went on to say that patriotism must also include living up to the principles that are at the foundation of our government, and when WBC protests the funeral of a fallen solder, even though it is morally outrageous, it is, in itself, and expression of one of the principles of our country, and that because they through their actions, live up to the principle of free expression, in this way, they are patriotic.

"Soldiers follow orders. They are not involved in policy decision...."

The reason why I used WBC as an focus point for my essay, is because they protest the funeral of fallen solders, and we in our country give them credit for defending and upholding our freedoms, but when WBC protests their funerals, we feel outraged at the blatant disrespect, so we feel justified in forbidding them from protesting. But this creates a problem, because the solder who has died, is recognized as sacrificing their life for our collective freedoms, including free speech, so when we seek to remove the right of free speech, we have ultimately rendered that sacrifice in vain.

"You seemed a bit worried about the rights to freedom of expression for the WBC but failed to acknowledge the rights of the individual soldiers to live and die in dignity. "

There is an issue here we have to address, and that is the uncomfortable fact that there is no right to die in dignity. Going back to the point of sacrifice in the name of our freedoms, remember that it is not ONE solder who sacrificed their life to uphold our freedom, but EVERY solder, in the history of America. And the collective weight of all those lives, means that this freedom is greater than any one life.

Now I agree with you that the aims of WBC are way off the mark, and at times appear to me to be nothing more than cruelty for the sake of cruelty. But just because I feel this way does not mean that they have no right, or that i can use my position of outrage to prevent them from protesting.

I want to ask what you meant by this:

"The direction of your original post is almost academic and unrealistic in defence of Westboro Baptist Church's right to freedom of expression."

I am unsure what you are saying here and do not want to respond to something you did not say. So if you could elaborate I would appreciate it.

Thank you again.