{"id":1096,"date":"2004-02-12T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/america-was-a-free-speach-zone\/"},"modified":"2004-02-12T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T17:07:46","slug":"america-was-a-free-speach-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/america-was-a-free-speach-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"America was a Free-Speach Zone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alibi.com\/alibi_pix\/v13i06\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"alibi cover\"\/><a title=\"alibi . february 5 - 11, 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/alibi.com\/editorial\/section_display.php?di=2004-02-05&amp;scn=feature#7178\">&#8221;Free-Speech Zone&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nThe Bush administration doesn&#8217;t want dissenters to be seen or heard.<br \/>\nBy James Bovard, The American Conservative magazine<\/p>\n<p>When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up &#8221;free speech zones&#8221; or &#8221;protest zones&#8221; 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. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You probably thought the whole country is a free-speech zone. As Bush talks about how freedom in the Middle East will end &#8221;terror&#8221;, he has done more than anyone since Nixon, even Joe McCarthy, to curtail freedom in our own country. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though you didn&#8217;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. <a title=\"mjh's Dump Bush weBlog: Send Bush to Mars!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/000354.htm\">[read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Free-Speech Zone&#8221; The Bush administration doesn&#8217;t want dissenters to be seen or heard. By James Bovard, The American Conservative magazine When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up &#8221;free speech zones&#8221; or &#8221;protest zones&#8221; where people opposed to Bush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/america-was-a-free-speach-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America was a Free-Speach Zone!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}