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Offline rio grande

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Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« on: March 15, 2012, 05:00:04 AM »
A really strange time we love in - the vilest. most graphic and violent pornography is allowed, supposedly justified by our First Amendment rights to free speech, while peaceful protests against  government policies can be banned simply based on whether the government likes what you say or not.


"...Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.


  Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government. The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a "restricted" area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well...."
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano45.1.html

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Re: Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2012, 04:56:44 AM »
..and I keep reading about the Nazis and Hitler here. ;)
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Re: Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2012, 05:20:05 AM »
the enslaving of the nation has been going on since Jan, 2009.
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Re: Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2012, 06:03:31 AM »
the enslaving of the nation has been going on since Jan, 2009.




LOL! You think this is when it began? :o
Freedom Of Speech.....Once we lose it, every other freedom will follow.

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Re: Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2012, 06:28:58 AM »
I'm subtracting at least 80+ years from that date.
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Re: Free Speech? Well, that depends...
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2012, 06:42:24 AM »
the enslaving of the nation has been going on since Jan, 2009.




LOL! You think this is when it began? :o
oh, it's been creeping up for a long time.  but it became glaringly obvious on that date. he even warned us that it was going to happen.
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