[Blood of Tyrants]

Free speech for me but not for thee.

[Steve_Seattle]

Every September the City of Seattle sponsors a music/arts festival called Bumbershoot. One time during the Bush years, I saw a guy there selling t-shirts depicting George W. Bush being shot in the head. There was no public denunciation of or apology for this.

A year or two later, a local parade featured a float depicting effigies of Bush and Cheney. Behind the float, a man was pulling a wagon or wheelbarrow filled with spoiled fruit, which spectators were encouraged to throw at the effigies. Again, there was no public criticism of this, especially not from the holier-than-thou Seattle Times, the defender of "civility."