The issue focused on their political rights, not the government's.

"It is very important to know that they are working for what we want and for what it would be like," said Haron Sartre, head of free speech law at New York University Law School. "We can't allow them to take those civil liberties away from us. It is our legal right to do so. We have no option but to tell them that this is just a tax in which we pay more."

