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Of course you didn't mind a bit when people with signs critical of Bush were pulled out the crowds along motorcade routes and confined to some fenced area blocks away. They said it was for the protection of the protestors. You are not going to find me defending the practice on campuses and yet it seems to me that I remember conservatives reacting with glee when protest activity outside these free speech zones was the excuse used to put down student protests for various leftist causes.Yeah that kind of thing started back in the Vietnam era when everyone was scared of hippies. Somehow I do not think the people who called out the dogs on war protestors were very liberal. My original post did not claim Bush invented free speech zones, he just made it standard procedure for the secret service and used it in a blatantly political way. It's when the term became a synonym for suppression of our first amendment right to protest.I'm back it seems it became the norm during the Bush administration, It became so blatantly restrictive of protest rights that the ACLU had to sue the secret service to quit putting protestors way out of sight of the president while letting supporters much closer..Are you somehow not familiar with the legal concept of "free speech zones" championed by the Bush administration? It is so commonplace now that you may not even be aware that setting up enclosed areas where protest is permitted but criminalized elsewhere is a relatively new thing.
Go ahead and type "free speech zones" into google and get back with us.
Funny...99% of the info on my search was about college free speech zones.
You guys apparently love the idea.
I guess you have the liberal version of Google.![]()