This amendment first guarantee's that we will have the freedom to practice what religion we want to practice, without the government saying otherwise. Also it is stated here that we can gather peacefully to protest against what we feel are the policies in our government that are unfair or just plain against our liking.
This fine outstanding gentleman is on the right track. Although the first amendment guarantees our right to say anything, it only reserves that right for U.S. citizens. Julian Assange is not a U.S. citizen and therefore has no rights under our constitution. If his website was in any way hosted in the United States it would have disappeared a very long time ago.
What Officer John Pike demonstrated to the demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street gathering on the University of California Davis campus, was that the freedom of speech does not always hold up in its encounter with circumstance. Circumstance like curfew and trespassing, another good challenge to freedom of speech is where the greater common good lies, is it with people blocking a walking path or the paramedics that might theoretically have to turn around because they can't go past the blockade.
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