Salon reports a fine example of free speech respected in the state of Texas. "When a 16-year-old kid named Felix Fanaselle failed to stand when a flag-waving Lee Greenwood song blasted over the loudspeakers at a Houston rodeo, he was spat upon, assaulted and told to 'go back to Iraq'. [Felix is an American of Italian and Mexican descent; apparently he wasn't quite white enough for the rodeo crowd.]" The Salon article goes on to detail various civil rights atrocities underway right here in the great and free United States, perpetrated by our government and the very supporters of our "American Way". [Free Salon Day Pass required to read the full article.]