k wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
] ] Why are 'protesters' being wrangled up
] ] in a barbed-wire fenced off area, jokingly referred to as
] the
] ] 'free-speech zone'?
]
] [ What sad is, that wasn't referred to as such jokingly.
] That's real, and it was a government reporesentative who first
] said it. An FBI or Secret Service guy if i recall. They
] really actually do think that it's a-ok to cordon off the
] areas where you can dissent. It's pretty preposterous. In
] any situation where there isn't an obvious and direct risk to
] public safety, people should have the right to do their thing
] wherever they want. -k]

I guess the thing that really set me off about this in the first place is that universal law of physics applied to mob violence. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and in this case, the more this administration tries to squelch people's right to protest and their opposition to be heard, then the more desperate and forceful they will become in order to be heard. Do we really want to repeat the late 60's and early 70's protest scene? Do we want another Chicago or Kent State? Cuz that's exactly where we're heading right now.

What's even more disgusting is the 'town hall meetings' and 'Q n A sessions' that the Bush administration is hosting, which requires attendees to sign their 'allegiance' (their words, not mine) to the party or to be a registered Republican. If this wasn't so frightfully fascist, I'd laugh at the concept, but with the way things are going, I'm starting to look at property in Canada.

RE: New York Braces for Protests