How about the freedom of speech in the USA?

Today I watched this video on Repubblica TV:

http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=12680&showtab=Copertina

I'm speechless. What's happening in the USA? Why Andrew Meyer, a student asking embarrassing questions to U.S. Senator John Kerry, was arrested and mistreated by the police? I don't understand. Any ideas?

This is the website where his friends are giving information about what happened and asking for help in order to have him out of jail:

http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/

Other bloggers' opinions about this:

- in English:

http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deeannaroberts/CQz4

http://michellemalkin.com/

http://blog.youngpeoplefor.org/tag/Andrew%20Meyer

- in Italian:

http://landofnowhere.splinder.com/

http://uncadunca.leonardo.it/blog/andrew_meyer_e_gabriele_paolini.html

http://blog.quintarelli.it/2007/09/liberate-andrew.html

http://www.liberoweb.net/

http://www.davidpuente.net/