> And, in response, they're conducting a campaign to remove from Eich one of the basic civil rights of man - free speech (including political speech).
No, they aren't. Eich exercised his free speech, and advocated that other people exercise their right to vote in a particular way.
They are exercising their right to free speech, and advocating that other people exercise their right to free association in a particular way.
They don't like the way Eich exercised his right to free speech, or the action it advocated, but they don't argue that he should not have been permitted to exercise that right.
No, they aren't. Eich exercised his free speech, and advocated that other people exercise their right to vote in a particular way.
They are exercising their right to free speech, and advocating that other people exercise their right to free association in a particular way.
They don't like the way Eich exercised his right to free speech, or the action it advocated, but they don't argue that he should not have been permitted to exercise that right.