Taner Akcam, a Turkish refugee, is a well-respected historian teaching at the University of Minnesota.

Through diligent research of official Turkish archives, Professor Akcam has documented the horrific slaughter of over a million Armenians by the government of Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

Activists associated with the Turkish government have retaliated by inserting comments in online book reviews and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, falsely accusing Akcam of affiliation with terrorist groups. Data mining by Homeland Security officials found those malicious false accusations and used them to justify putting the professor on a watch list.

Last February, Professor Akcam was detained for several hours in Montreal, where he had traveled to give a lecture. Although he was eventually released, he was told by a US Homeland Security official that he would have to hire a lawyer to correct the issue,? and that he wasn't free to travel until he had done so.

America is now a country in which an innocent person can become a prisoner on the basis of cyber-libels.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.