Thursday, August 12, 2004

Free Speech Zone My Ass

Dahlia Lithwick, guest commenting at the New York Times today from Slate, nails it:


Enormous national events will inevitably be terror targets. So will the president. But before we single out the anarchists and the environmentalists and the puppet-guys for diminished constitutional protections - before we herd them into what are speech-free zones - we might question whether they represent the real danger. If we don't recognize the distinction between passionate political speech and terrorism now, it may be too late to protest later.
Indeed.


Has there ever been a more insidious breach of our rights than the so called Free Speech Zones?

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