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GiovanniC

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Fri Jan-21-05 04:59 PM
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283. I Simply Don't See How You Can Look Around This Country

Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 05:00 PM by GiovanniC

And think the First Amendment is alive and well.

"Free Speech Zones" so that protesters are rounded up like dogs in a cage miles from the thing they are protesting.
http://baltimorechronicle.com/052704FreeSpeechZones.shtml

Creationist stickers on biology textbook denouncing evolution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/national/19evolution.html

A press that is beaten into submission, bribed and purchased for political propaganda purposes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56330-2005Jan7.html
http://www.thememoryhole.org/memoryblog/archives/000014.html

People fined for having "objectionable" protest signs. ("This war is bushit")
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0111-01.htm

Permits for protests being unjustly denied to protest groups.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4862641/

People being warned to "watch what they say" by administration officials.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-5.html

Shall I go on?

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