WTF is a "free-speech zone?"

Teslarocker

hippiemom wrote:

I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.

*sigh*

This whole country was a free speech zone before

Puck78

hippiemom wrote:

I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.

*sigh*

you're so old???

PaperPlates

Are these rallies held on private property? Are they announced as 'open to the public'?

I only ask because the link the OP provided mentions no campus, only a privately owned hangar.

hippiemom

PaperPlates wrote:

Are these rallies held on private property? Are they announced as 'open to the public'?

I only ask because the link the OP provided mentions no campus, only a privately owned hangar.

I don't know about this particular instance, but this is what happened over and over again during the '04 campaign: There would be an appearance announced to the public, with limited tickets. The tickets would be handed out to the public, but no one who showed up with an anti-Bush t-shirt, bumper sticker, etc. could get one. People were often quizzed at the door about their political affiliation and denied entrance to this "public" event if they gave the wrong answers. Protesters would gather outside the venue, on public property, and they'd be rounded up and herded off to an enclosed space further from the venue where they wouldn't be visible to media covering the event, and away from the travel route so Bush would never see them.