Posted on 09/27/2008 2:12:28 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
Reader Ron e-mails that the Obama campaign has issued a decree banning all signs at a rally today at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
It is a public campus on public property.
The local newspaper, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star is up in arms:
NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?
Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally–or a McCain rally or a Nader rally–justify taking a little off the top of Americans’ most fundamental rights?
A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for “security” reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no “part of the sign could be used as a weapon”–e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, “We encourage people to make signs at our events.”
Just more Chicago gangland tactics from Camp Obama.
Now go read the edict that is in place in MO about something similar.
I’m sure all those free thinking academics will decry this trampling of free speech....*crickets*
Wonder if they’ll hand out bracelets...
He’s taking his cues from the Nation of Islam and its attendant thuggery..
Who is B. Hussein sending out to do his dirty work? Nation Of Islam guys or Union thugs?
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Security reasons, my you know what.
BTTT
Nobody seems interested in this but in Florida in 2004 in the hottest bed of confrontation on the I4 Corridor, Kerry had paid union thugs from up north, IPTAY or UPTAY guys who broke our doors down to our campaign headquarters, shot the glass out of the windows and used bullhorns to yell in the faces of toddlers. Not pretty AT ALL. These people were PAID.
Obama is scarier than Kerry.
What next, everyone has to wear a burqua?
This is getting scarier and scarier. If Obama is like this on the campaign trail, just think how bad he would be as president.
Obama may very well be another Hitler.
Yes We Can!
(silence our critics)
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