WTF is a "free-speech zone?"

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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    I'm looking forward to college because of these... I actually have something to stand against and bring down on a local level!

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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,759
    mammasan wrote:
    There where Free Speach Zone during the Republican National Convention in NYC. It was a fenced off area far enough from Madison Square Garden and all the lights and camerasto really be noticed. I'm pretty sure that they had the same set up at the Democratic National Convention.


    I don't remember hearing about the Dems doing that.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    igotid88 wrote:
    I don't remember hearing about the Dems doing that.

    You might not remember but they did indeed set up a pen for a free speach zone. Democrats are not that innocent. They are just as bad as the Republicans.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    mammasan wrote:
    You might not remember but they did indeed set up a pen for a free speach zone. Democrats are not that innocent. They are just as bad as the Republicans.

    Yea, I posted it, 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    So, technically, 'NON FREE SPEECH ZONES' exist. Fan-fucking-tastic.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    keeponrockin wrote:
    So, technically, 'NON FREE SPEECH ZONES' exist. Fan-fucking-tastic.

    Well, no, you can say whatever you want, but if you trash talk the Republicans at or near the RNC convention they kick you out. You are still free to say good things about them ;)
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  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Protesters were steered to a "free-speech zone" elsewhere on campus.

    Creepy.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    This is the America that constantly boasted about their freedoms?
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    flywallyfly wrote:
    I believe that is what they would like for us to accept. We dont have to. These people supposedly work for us and they are all (Rep and Dems) needing a reminder that they work for us.
    It's sad... literally, and I don't mean it in a patronising way... but I do feel sorry for some of you having to live in that. They have made people think that they are not the leaders... but the boss... and everyone works for THEM. I would LOVE to see an uprising over there and I would love to see you all get the government you deserve.
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  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    so the pier 57 incident never hit the mainstream media. i didn't know about it until i read the thread. that is insane.
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  • Teslarocker
    Teslarocker Posts: 123
    hippiemom wrote:
    I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.

    *sigh*

    This whole country was a free speech zone before
  • Puck78
    Puck78 Posts: 737
    hippiemom wrote:
    I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.

    *sigh*
    you're so old???
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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    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.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    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.
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