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ReddHedd at FireDogLake has more on which “Freedom of Speech” is allowable in America these days and which “Freedom of Speech” isn’t.

Our minute-by-minute coverage of events last night as they happened is here. Our discussion of the unequal treatment Sheehan was given compared to a Republican Congressman’s wife last night is here.

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  1. 3)
    coal_train said on 2/1/2006 @ 10:57am PT: [Permalink]

    They let us keep our freedom of speech because it is such an effective way to identify dissenters.

  2. 5)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 2/1/2006 @ 11:44am PT: [Permalink]

    . . . if Americans are addicted to "oil" . . . Then who are The Pushers ? ? ? . . . & . . . What should DO to Them ? ? ? ?

  3. 10)
    Mugzi said on 2/1/2006 @ 1:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    So we’re addicted to oil, guess who’s the pusher?? Al Gore had more concern for our country and the environment in his speech a couple weeks ago, than was expressed by our impostor prez. Confidence, trust, and faith have to be earned and gw fails again!

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    KestrelBrighteyes said on 2/1/2006 @ 1:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    Catherine – Don’t remember where I first heard of it, but it’s a link, click on it to go read the entire article.

    And hell YES it’s creepy!

    A patriot must be ready to defend his country against his government — Edward Abbey

    TIME TO MOSH!!

    https://bradblog.com/archives/00002339.htm

  5. 12)
    merifour said on 2/1/2006 @ 2:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    #5..addicted…lets sue the oil companies..the emporer with no clothes just gave us the ammo. This includes all Americans, not just smokers who sue big tobacco…lets sue all the oil pushers.

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    big dan said on 2/1/2006 @ 3:10pm PT: [Permalink]

    Anybody who thinks this was "an accident" or "we screwed up" is an absolute idiot. When are you gonna stop believing shit like that???

    9/11 was an accident, too. We accept too easily, when people say, "we screwed up". We let them go, even if they knowingly and premeditatedly did it.

  7. 15)
    Bob said on 2/1/2006 @ 6:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    Cindy Sheehan should be in prison right now for her disruptive crimes. In times of terror, America must stand strong against those who do not respect the nation or support the truths such as Sheehan.

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    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 2/2/2006 @ 4:18am PT: [Permalink]

    For Big Dan: "We screwed up" is Rightwingspeak for "We’ve tried hard to come up with something to justify arresting Cindy Sheehan, but nothing will fly at this point, especially since we were forced to evict Mrs. Young as well, and her husband is really pissed off, so to shut him up we have say, ‘We screwed up.’"

    If Cindy’s lawsuit is certifiied, part of the discovery process can become finding out who spread the lie that she was trying to put up a banner. It could be germaine to the extent that it speaks to a possible motivation behind Cindy’s arrest, i.e., not a simple mistake ("We screwed up"), rather "We tried hard to nail this troublemaker, but nothing worked." In other words, a deliberate attempt to violate her civil rights, which I believe is worth about ten years making license plates for whoever ordered it.

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    Joan said on 2/2/2006 @ 4:30am PT: [Permalink]

    #15

    "America must stand strong against those who do not respect the nation"

    Exactly.

    Which is why we here think that bush/cheney/rice/rove/rummy et al should be in jail for creating more terrorists, fanning anti-Americanism, spending America’s money in Iraq instead of in America, appointing incompetent cronies to agencies assigned to protect us, breaking the FISA law, outing Valerie Plame, rigging elections, failing to arm their own troops, buying propaganda, attempting to bribe a member of Congress, putting the country in hock to foreign governments, and lying the country into a war of aggression, and that’s the short list.

    They don’t have a shred of respect for the nation or for the truth. Not a bloody fucking shred.

  10. 20)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 2/2/2006 @ 6:17am PT: [Permalink]

    Right on, Joan. People like "Bob" in #15 speak the truth without realizing what they’re saying. "Those who don’t respect the nation" are the same people who defy the Constitution. Why? Because it’s the bedrock of the nation. You bet. Thanks, Bob, for the civics lesson.

    But who is it that doesn’t respect the Constitution? It sure as hell isn’t Cindy Sheehan. Anyone can wear a T-shirt. Nor is it Mrs. Young from Florida. It’s people who try to make a crime out of legal protest who don’t respect the nation. And, they’re the same people who don’t respect other nations, either…in fact, they invade them without provocation and under false pretenses.

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