Personal Rights & Freedoms
PROPOSED / DRAFT — FREE SPEECH, TRUE THREATS & TERRORISM
MPA strongly protects freedom of speech, including speech that is offensive, hateful, radical, or anti-American. Free speech does not provide immunity for criminal conduct.
Where conduct or communications meet the legal requirements for true threats, terrorism, criminal solicitation, actionable incitement, conspiracy, or another crime, the law should be enforced vigorously. Threats of rape, murder, racial violence, terrorism, or extermination should be evaluated under the same legal standards regardless of the race, religion, sex, or political beliefs of the offender or intended victim.
Ideas are free. True threats and criminal acts are not. Same crime. Same law. Same justice.
FREE SPEECH & POLITICAL EXTREMISM
MPA strongly protects freedom of speech.
That protection includes speech we despise.
Americans may criticize America.
They may advocate radical political change.
They may hold racist, communist, fascist, socialist, anarchist, or other extreme political beliefs.
Government should not imprison someone merely because government hates their ideas.
The line is criminal conduct.
Credible criminal threats, criminal solicitation, conspiracy, assault, arson, rape, destruction of property, terrorism, and other prosecutable conduct remain subject to law.
Ideas are free. Crimes are not.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Liberty is secure only when constitutional limits apply consistently, including when speech is unpopular, government claims an emergency, or officials believe their objective is beneficial. Rights must have practical remedies, not merely ceremonial recognition.
WHAT MPA WILL DO
Require every major federal proposal restricting a protected liberty to identify its constitutional authority, necessity, scope, duration, less restrictive alternatives, and method of review.
Provide expedited judicial review and attorney-fee recovery for people subjected to unlawful censorship, search, seizure, detention, compelled speech, or religious discrimination.
Prohibit government agencies from pressuring private platforms or institutions to suppress lawful speech that government could not directly censor.
Require prompt notice, counsel, evidence access, and judicial review when government removes a child, restricts parental authority, or withholds material records under a claimed safety exception.
Sunset emergency restrictions unless the legislature renews them after public evidence and debate.
WHAT MPA WILL MEASURE
Duration and scope of emergency restrictions; constitutional violations found by courts; time to obtain judicial review; compliance with notice and disclosure duties; child-removal review times and reunification outcomes; and government spending on judgments caused by unlawful conduct.
Protests, Riots, and Freedom of Movement
Blocking Roads
Knowingly and unlawfully blocking:
interstate highways;
major roads;
emergency routes;
hospital access;
airports;
evacuation routes;
may be separately punishable.
Emergency vehicles should never be intentionally obstructed.
Political protest does not create a right to imprison other people in traffic or deny them reasonable freedom of movement.
PEACEFUL PROTEST & PERSONAL BOUNDARIES
People have a right to protest, demonstrate, criticize, chant, carry signs, and express unpopular ideas in lawful public places. Protest does not create a right to touch, spit on, surround, trap, stalk, threaten, or deliberately invade another person's immediate physical space.
Equal Personal-Space Standard
No protester, counterprotester, official, law-enforcement officer, journalist, or bystander receives a one-way privilege to crowd another person merely because of status or viewpoint.
Absent a lawful operational need, emergency, confined space, or unavoidable crowd condition, a person who is directly confronted should be able to request a reasonable conversational distance, normally at least six feet when space permits.
Deliberately screaming directly into another person's face or ear at close range after a clear request to step back, directing amplified sound into a person's ear, following someone who is trying to disengage, or blocking a safe route away may be regulated as conduct without regulating the speaker's viewpoint.
Ordinary chanting, general crowd noise, sharp criticism, offensive words, or loud speech in a public forum does not become unlawful merely because another person dislikes the message.
Neutral Enforcement
Police should separate opposing groups, protect reasonable access and exit routes, and enforce the same rules against touching, threats, obstruction, targeted noise, and invasion of personal space regardless of political viewpoint. Officers should not order only one side to surrender lawful space merely because the other side is louder, more numerous, or threatens to react badly.
Core MPA standard: Protect the protest and protect the person. Freedom of speech does not include ownership of another person's body, ears, vehicle, doorway, or freedom of movement.
Related policies: Constitutional Government & Separation of Powers; Parental Rights & Child-Removal Due Process; Image, Likeness & Digital Replicas; Cyberbullying, Defamation & Digital Reputation.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Originally published: August 15, 2026.
Last updated: September 26, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.6.