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  • Wenyi Wang's Case May Not Go to Trial

    05/30/2006 10:03:46 PM PDT · by at bay · 4 replies · 386+ views
    Epoch Times ^ | May 29, 2006 | Gary Feuerberg
    The preliminary hearing of Dr. Wenyi Wang, 47, was postponed again for nearly two weeks, till May 31 as both sides sought more time to prepare. The charges stem from her interruption of the Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao on April 20 at the White House South Lawn. She was escorted away by the Secret Service, spent the rest of the day in jail, and later was released without bail on her own recognizance, pending further proceedings. The physician protester is being charged with a federal misdemeanor of "willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening and harassing a foreign official." The punishment she...
  • Limits on cash stifle free speech (ACLUer Gets it Right)

    05/28/2006 12:58:07 PM PDT · by Celtjew Libertarian · 33 replies · 544+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | 5/28/2006 | Robyn E. Blumner
    Why don’t liberals understand the freedom-crushing nature of campaign finance reform? How come it is easy for liberals to see the First Amendment interest in other overheated free speech issues, such as reporting on the classified operations of the National Security Agency or displaying Robert Mapplethorpe nudes, but when it comes to political discourse during an election season, they’re all for government restraints? This is the same question that famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams raises in his autobiographical book Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment. In one chapter, Abrams recounts a speech he gave to a Unitarian church...