Speak Freely

Quarantining dissent / How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech

When President 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.

Bush talks about preserving freedom while he moves to reduce ours. mjh

We protest!

Though you didn’t see it on the news and read almost nothing about it in print, there were protesters in Roswell confronting George Bush. We were there.

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: America was a Free-Speach Zone!

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: First and Fifth Amendments Survive