It is not about the First Amendment, free speech, and it never was. The Egyptian, Yemen and Libyan protests were planned demonstrations — planned, according to Al-Jazeera, weeks, perhaps months before Sept. 11. The real issue, which the liberal press refuses to acknowledge, is that with the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, murders at hand, all foreign bases and particularly the Middle Eastern consulates should have been on high alert.