We owe this vigilance to ourselves — as the potential next targets — and to our free-speech heritage.
Tom Hooper's finely acted The King's Speech neatly mixed heritage trappings with irreverence in the true story of King George VI Colin Firthh) battling against his stammer.
He was defiant on Thursday, giving a speech lauding the "Christian heritage of France".
One day he made a speech about protecting the heritage of our seeds and talked about the Heritage Seed Library in West Sussex.
The Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi made a point of embracing this heritage in her speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003.
All three Murdoch heirs were educated mainly in the United States and speak without an Australian accent, but Lachlan Murdoch sometimes plays up his heritage, sprinkling his speech with Australian expressions like "no worries, mate".
Elizabeth Warren gave a speech on her Native American heritage and that "Pocahontas" slur.
Asked by the daily Libération why the Piss Christ protest had happened now, Mézil pointed to Sarkozy's speech in March lauding "the Christian heritage of France" at Puy-en-Velay, where the first Crusades were preached.
A Muslim convert, Adel Smith, has been fighting a long battle to get such symbols removed.In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has dismayed secularists by stressing the country's Catholic heritage in some recent speeches.
It is this legacy Mr McCain was referring to when he said, in his final New Hampshire speech, that "the Republican Party has recovered its heritage of reform".Well, hardly.
And in London, we see how Evgeny Lebedev uses his oligarch-paved influence, as owner of the Evening Standard and as a man of the world, to champion free speech, aid to Somali refugees, and the heritage of Russian theater.
