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Kerry's "Free Speech Zone" for Conservatives (Gitmo Revisited)
Yahoo! News ^ | July 21, 2004 | AP

Posted on 07/24/2004 1:50:11 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR

An area designated for organized protests appears enclosed by mesh and chain link fencing near the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, in Boston, Wednesday, July 21, 2004. A new federal lawsuit has been filed against the city over the fenced-in protest area that has been called a 'demonstration zone,' and a 'free speech zone.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Wed Jul 21, 6:48 PM ET
AP

An area designated for organized protests appears enclosed by mesh and chain link fencing near the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, in Boston, Wednesday, July 21, 2004. A new federal lawsuit has been filed against the city over the fenced-in protest area that has been called a 'demonstration zone,' and a 'free speech zone.' (AP Photo/Steven Senne)



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abubgraib; diversity; freespeech; fruitloops; gitmo; humiliation; tolerance; zerotolerance; zonedout
Do they serve fruit loops, like at Gitmo? Is this as humiliating as Abu Graib? Is this how they celebrate "Tolerance" and "Diversity"?
1 posted on 07/24/2004 1:50:15 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
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To: TERMINATTOR

Is it possible that this is a set up so Lurch can say "Free speech is more important, set'em free?"


2 posted on 07/24/2004 1:54:40 PM PDT by TFL-Thumper
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To: TERMINATTOR

And yet in NYC, a federal judge there has ruled that the police cannot confiscate backpacks without just cause.

So the conservatives will be caged in Boston and in NYC, the terrorists and the radical protestors can carry whatever they want in their backpacks.

This is what a liberal judiciary has brought us...conservatives being treated like animals.


3 posted on 07/24/2004 1:54:52 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: TERMINATTOR

Looks like they put it under a drop forge too.


4 posted on 07/24/2004 2:16:36 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: Peach

i dont think its cons who are going to be protesting, its going to be wacko hippies just like every protest. Anarcists , commies and junkies, oh my.

Conservatives dont go to protest marches, they have jobs.


5 posted on 07/24/2004 2:16:46 PM PDT by goldwaterlives
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To: TERMINATTOR

It's a "Tolerance Camp"


6 posted on 07/24/2004 2:19:48 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (Bach gave us God's Word, Mozart gave us God's laughter, Beethoven gave us God's fire.)
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To: TERMINATTOR
Hopefully they'll feed them once in awhile...


7 posted on 07/24/2004 2:26:05 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Play that funky music white boy!)
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To: TERMINATTOR

Shouldn't they be afforded the same freedoms and venues that Kerry had when he was a protester with Jane Fonda?


8 posted on 07/24/2004 2:33:31 PM PDT by Smartaleck (Wonder if Jackie has whine with his cheese?)
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To: TERMINATTOR

Perhaps it's no coincidence that they're holding this thing at a place with the same name as a well-known enema.


9 posted on 07/24/2004 3:17:28 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Peach
And yet in NYC, a federal judge there has ruled that the police cannot confiscate backpacks without just cause.

Cannot even search backpacks without just cause.

10 posted on 07/24/2004 3:24:15 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: xm177e2

That's right - search backpacks. A ridiculous ruling.


11 posted on 07/24/2004 3:35:21 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Smartaleck
Shouldn't they be afforded the same freedoms and venues that Kerry had when he was a protester with Jane Fonda?

Asolutley!


12 posted on 07/24/2004 3:57:55 PM PDT by BigLittle
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To: TERMINATTOR

Free Speech Zone: The Democratic Party Vision

Needs to be a campaign poster.

13 posted on 07/24/2004 3:58:58 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: goldwaterlives

Exactly! This is to prevent the kook leftist fringe from ruining the convention like they did in '68. I bet the "conservative" protesters are 1/10000th of the crowd.


14 posted on 07/24/2004 4:36:47 PM PDT by boop
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To: Peach

I don't think it's for conservatives. The Dems are so paranoid - and want to avoid the appearance of being the ultra-left flakes that they are - that this is for leftist demonstrators (Code Pink, etc.). Conservatives cause no problems, but anarchists do. They want to avoid 1968 redux.

No matter who it's for, it's very creepy, and I'm glad the Pubbies aren't doing it in NYC. (Although I do think that backpacks should be checked...)


15 posted on 07/24/2004 4:43:52 PM PDT by livius
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To: boop

is free speech really free speech is it steps on other peoples rights? such as my right to go to work in boston without getting harrased by wackos or have them block traffic


16 posted on 07/24/2004 5:27:32 PM PDT by goldwaterlives
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To: Smartaleck
No, Smert...

The tables are turned, you don't expect the Libs to use the same rules for peons, do ya?

Heh
17 posted on 07/24/2004 6:04:08 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: VadeRetro
Free Speech Zone: The Democratic Party Vision

Not just democrats. Clinton did this once, down in Texas. Bush does this all the time and FReepers couldn't be happier. You reap what you sow.


“Free-Speech Zone” - The administration quarantines dissent.

...When Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up “free speech zones” or “protest zones” where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event.

When Bush came to the Pittsburgh area on Labor Day 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was there to greet him with a sign proclaiming, “The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us.” The local police, at the Secret Service’s behest, set up a “designated free-speech zone” on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush’s speech. The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs, though folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the president’s path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct; the police also confiscated his sign. Neel later commented, “As far as I’m concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone. If the Bush administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind.”...



18 posted on 07/26/2004 9:45:17 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker
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