The usqueers.com page in question: http://www.usqueers.com/commentary/die_soon.html Excerpt:

Ronald Reagan, ex-President, deserves to experience a horrible death soon, and is getting what he deserves. We're listing him as wounded because the way he is dying is horrible (Alzheimer's) and irreversible, even if he isn't aware of it anymore, and not soon enough we will happily add him to our Good Riddance! section.

Attorney John B. Thompson, who wrote the letter to DOJ, has a fascinating history of, for instance, reportedly attacking CBS over what he viewed as threats the network's comedy show made on the life of George W. Bush: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3992e0b40d02.htm Thompson wrote a letter to FCC complaining about Howard Stern: http://www.cluebot.com/articles/01/09/14/2010224.shtml

a special tip-of-the-hat to [Thompson] who, in the face of the death of thousands of Americans, has taken time out of his busy schedule to petition the FCC to censor Howard Stern, whom he terms a 'child molestor' and 'pornographer'. It's nice to know some people have their priorities straight.

I'm not sure why CNSNews.com would call Thompson a "prominent First Amendment lawyer." He seems to be a prominent 1A lawyer in much the same way that Louis Freeh was a prominent privacy advocate. In his email below, David Burt is talking about when the ACLU's Oregon affiliate (not the national ACLU) filed an amicus brief arguing that a federal judge close the Nuremberg anti-abortion site (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01860.html). -Declan ---