The High Cost Of Cussing

August, 1976

Believe it or not, the state of Florida is still hassling a Vietnam-war protester who said "goddamn" at a peace rally over six years ago. He is 47-year-old Robert Benjamin Canney, a former University of Florida instructor and political activist. His case provides a good Bicentennial reminder that even a government founded on the principles of free speech and due process of law too often equates dissent with disloyalty and uses its police powers to deny the very rights it was created to...