Free speech would only be dead if you had been carted off and imprisoned for what you said.  I hope this has not happened and I don't think it will.  What has happened is the natural consequence of speech.

Free speech=the protected right to open your mouth and have sound come out or then there's the written media.  However, there will be reactions.  Some reactions may not be the kind of reactions I want.  But, until you've been detained or someone comes along and removes your writing, posts or puts you in a box, you have not been censored.  You've just been reacted to.  Freedom of speech is dead if I can't react.

So...we're not going to come to a conclusion at this point.  But if I can hear your voice, then Freedom of Speech is alive, kicking and is a real bitch.

PRH