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	Free speech zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Free speech zones (also known as First Amendment Zones and Free speech cages) are areas set aside in public places for political activists to exercise their right of free speech in the United States.
		When he refused an order to go to the free speech zone half-a-mile away, he was arrestd and charged with trespassing by the South Carolina police.
		Free speech zones were at issue in a fictional court case on the television show The Practice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_speech_zone (853 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Boycott is planned in free-speech zone
		The zone, a 25,800-square-foot asphalt lot next to the parking area for delegates' buses, is the only area where protesters are allowed within sight of delegates themselves.
		It appears that the only left-leaning event still being planned for the free-speech zone is a rally supporting Palestinians and opposing Israeli occupation, and that is only because organizers think the area offers symbolic value for their particular message.
		US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock said Thursday it was ''an understatement" to liken the zone to an internment camp, but he agreed with city officials who said the security measures are necessary, given post-9/11 terrorism threats and a pattern of unruly antiglobalization demonstrations in recent years.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/25/boycott_is_planned_in_free_speech_zone (736 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Free Speech Under Fire: The ACLU Challenge to ""Protest Zones""
		Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans.
		I arrived with my sign only to discover that protesters were being herded into a remote "free speech zone" located some distance from where Cheney and his press entourage would enter.
		Within a short time, two uniformed Allegheny police officers approached me and demanded that I enter the "designated free speech zone." I quietly refused, stating that a designated free-speech zone is a contradiction in terms and that the whole country is a free speech zone.
	www.aclu.org /FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13693&c=86 (1003 words)

	Free Speech Zone established in remote, sparsely populated location
		The protest zone was established after the ACLU took the government to court because protestors outside of Bush and Cheney fundraisers were made to stand in special “free speech” pens that were established as far as a mile away from where the President and Vice-President were to speak.
		Other free speech zones were set up beneath a highway underpass, on an airport landing strip, under a bowling alley, in a broom closet and in the middle of the Okefoneekee swamp.
		The free speech zone is clearly marked so as to prevent ordinary Americans from wandering in and having their minds blown.
	www.freepressed.com /freespeech.htm (1005 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Michael Avery \| Police Cage Free Speech in Boston
		The zone is large enough only for 1000 persons to safely congregate and is bounded by two chain link fences separated by concrete highway barriers.
		The demonstration zone in Boston, on the other hand, is a walk in freezer for free speech.
		Of course, the court was free to decide that the government had not proven that the conditions were necessary and a more intrepid judge would have done so.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/072504A.shtml (1068 words)

	Wired News: Free Speech Behind the Razor Wire
		But activists have been largely united in one civil action: their boycott of the so-called free-speech zone carved out by the U.S. Secret Service and local authorities, the only spot where protesters will be able to shout their messages to the delegates arriving on buses in a nearby parking lot.
		The protest zone, which most people here simply call "the cage," is beneath an elevated section of disused subway tracks near a newly paved bus parking lot.
		The zone, surrounded by two layers of chain link fences mounted on Jersey barriers, draped with fl mesh and topped with razor wire, violates the protesters' free-speech rights, said a legal observer for the Boston chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,64349,00.html (756 words)

	sos_usa: The administration quarantines dissent
		Protesters will be free to speak as much as they like just as long as they can’t be heard.” Demonstrators were shunted to an area away from the Federal Parliament building and prohibited from using any public address system in the area.
		But instead of a “free speech zone”—as such areas are labeled in the U.S.—the Bush administration demanded an “exclusion zone” to protect Bush from protesters’ messages.
		The idea of a 'free speech zone' has already been accepted at some levels, and I fear that it's going to be here for a while.
	community.livejournal.com /sos_usa/1251464.html (2241 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Judge upholds buffer zones for preachers
		The city adopted the zone plan after the LDS Church's conference last October, when two street preachers were assaulted by conference attendees.
		Campbell found the zones were "content-neutral" and noted everyone, regardless of their message, could use the zones.
		She also ruled the zones were "narrowly tailored" in that while they served the city's interest of keeping the peace and maintaining pedestrian traffic flow, they also allowed speakers to reach their audience.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595053280,00.html (612 words)

	Free Speech Zone Violated Rights of Protestors - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A federal appellate court ruled yesterday that the free speech rights of protestors were violated when they were herded into a "free expression zone" more than 200 feet from the people to whom they hoped to convey their message.
		Free speech and unfettered debate should be a 100% bipartisan issue we can all agree on.
		Free speech in a cage or zone is anything but.
	talkleft.com /new_archives/008365.html (744 words)

	Now I'm steppin into the free speech zone... \| MetaFilter
		free speech zone - analogous to a 'no fear' zone, in which you are encased in a reinforced concrete bunker 1000 feet below the surface.
		free speech zones are a precursor to the concrete and steel 'free speech correctional centers' of the near future.
		In the United States, free speech is the rule, not the exception, and citizens’ rights to express it do not depend on their doing it in a way the President finds politically amenable.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/28465 (2639 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Convention plan puts protesters blocks away
		Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.
		The zone would hold as few as 400 of the several thousand protesters who are expected in Boston in late July.
		Protesters will be allowed outside the zone, but civil liberties groups say those outside the designated area are likely to be given less leeway in staging demonstrations.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/20/convention_plan_puts_protesters_blocks_away?mode=PF (926 words)

	Boston IMC: feature/23923
		By giving free speech an unacceptable location, the City of Boston has unwittingly declared that the entire city is now a free speech zone.
		But todays tightening of the screws on public and private assembly and speech, and present zealous efforts on a breathtakingly broad front toward crushing privacy and grassroots networking and organizing, strongly impel citizens away from the Orwellian "free" speech zone public assembly and demonstration.
		It sad when you live in the land of the "free" and home of the "brave" but, you are forbidden to be free by cowardous acts of spoiled people who are suppose to represent us...the American people.
	boston.indymedia.org /feature/display/23923/index.php (3751 words)

	Tear Down this Wall
		The soil directly underneath this so called “Free Speech Zone” contains the blood of those early Americans who had the bravery and faith to stand up for what they believed in, and who were willing to die for it, in turn soaking this very ground with their life’s blood.
		This zone can be easily reached from the speakers platform of the convention by walking a few yards to the elevator, going down one floor, take a left though the glass doors to the street level, and then take a right to walk along the media pavilion.
		Edwards visit the inside of the "Free Speech Zone", and that while visiting that they take a pair of wire cutters and cut a hole in the fence to demonstrate that they support and are willing to defend the Constitution of the United States.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm390181.html (1177 words)

	Free Speech Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We can be critical of our icons and still side with them which is one of the great things about living in a "Free Speech Zone." You can say whatever you like about anyone you want, as long as you do it within one of these specially fenced in areas.
		While he was governor of Texas, he oversaw the execution of 130 prisoners on death row and now as Commander in Chief has the blood of hundreds of American soldiers and countless Iraqi troops and civilians on his hands.
		I want to make the entire area around my bed a free speech zone so you could wake me in the middle of the night to talk to me about what you didn't like about what I said (okay, not really, not in life, but in theory this should be acceptable).
	www.margaretcho.com /blog/freespeechzone.htm (413 words)

	Free Speech Zone
		Free speech must be absolute, or it does not exist at all.
		You are referring not to free speech, or to the logic involved, but to USA law.
		free speech is not, nor ever has been intended to be absolute.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=11616 (1944 words)

	National Libertarian Party
		Maybe the reasoning behind the front of the library being a non free speech area is to not create a nuisance in front of a building that many of the students need access to unfretted.
		Freedom of speech is derived from the 1st Amendment of the UNITED STATES Constitution, and that constitution is in effect for the entire United States of America.
		Whether it be campus speech codes, "free speech zones," political correctness or anything that has to do with the prevention of the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions, I support people who get together and fight these absurdities and abominations.
	www.lp.org /yourturn/archives/000175.shtml (4589 words)

	Boston IMC: newswire/23765
		This is as facist as it gets, if this is what this government thinks of "Free Speech" then we are no longer any kind of constitutional republic but more the dictatorship the GW gas clearly stated he would "prefer." God save us all.
		I personally feel that we were given the freedom of speech to say what we had to say, wherever it needed to be said, not to be put in a cage to say it.
		Since we can not vote or enter governent meetings in many states of the USA we are honoring as martyrs suicide bombers and kidnappers who limit their actitivies to those true criminals in the higher echelons of the Democrat/Republican regime, their highest and most corrupt and abusive bureaucrats, and their mafia associates.
	boston.indymedia.org /newswire/display/23765/index.php (2183 words)

	Opinion: Free speech zone shouldn't be limited
		At FSU, those islands of free speech are few and far between, away from vice presidents and deans, away from the public.
		Herding dissenters to some discreet "free speech zone" over by the old gym clearly inhibits and impairs their ability to express their views.
		The majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court said: "Under our Constitution, free speech is not a right that is given only to be so circumscribed that it exists in principle but not in fact.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/04/05/Opinion/Free_speech_zone_shou.shtml (796 words)

	+ FREE SPEECH ZONE PRODUCTIONS +
		Free Speech Zone Productions is a collective of young composers dedicated to presenting concerts of compelling new music to broad audiences in venues ranging from clubs to concert halls.
		Founders Judd Greenstein, David T. Little and Missy Mazzoli are united in their belief that music can inform, provoke, and inspire change, and seek to present music that speaks directly to the human experience in an era marked by anger and fear.
		Free Speech Productions is a collaboration among three gifted composers Judd Greenstein, David T. Little, and Missy Mazzoli who are eager to bring a new political charge to a generally apolitical new-music scene.
	www.fszproductions.com (284 words)

	State: Polk's free speech zone rules challenged in suit
		LAKELAND - Polk County officials have imposed unconstitutional requirements on would-be users of a so-called free speech zone at the courthouse in Bartow, claims a federal lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
		The free speech zone "is only a free speech zone for those who can afford to cough up the funds," said Rebecca H. Steele, director of the ACLU Tampa chapter.
		Under public pressure, county commissioners created the free speech zone outside the administration building this year after a Bartow church group erected a nativity scene there without permission last Christmas.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/12/10/State/Polk_s_free_speech_zo.shtml (826 words)

	Free silence zone
		Even the federal judge (as he upheld the zone's legality) sadly described the demonstration area "a festering boil." We all know that festering boils are not healthy for democracy.
		Free speech works best when everyone has a say.
		That's why it's essential to also hear the voices of dissent; those voices should be loud, clear and free.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/183636_speeched.html (375 words)

	Quarantining Dissent: How the Secret Service Protects Bush from Free Speech
		The Bush administration's anti-protester bias proved embarrassing for two American allies with long traditions of raucous free speech, resulting in some of the most repressive restrictions in memory in free countries.
		The FBI took a shotgun approach toward protesters partly because of the FBI's "belief that dissident speech and association should be prevented because they were incipient steps toward the possible ultimate commission of act which might be criminal," according to a Senate report.
		On Nov. 23 news broke that the FBI is actively conducting surveillance of antiwar demonstrators, supposedly to "blunt potential violence by extremist elements," according to a Reuters interview with a federal law enforcement official.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0104-04.htm (2011 words)

	Free Speech Pen at DNC 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		How did we get to the point where some citizen speech is penned and the people who are imposing themselves with extraordinary security needs (which us taxpayers are footing the bill for) speak and roam freely.
		The words of Judge Douglas P. Woodlock reviewing the case on July 22, 2004, "I at first thought, before taking a view (of the protest zone), that the characterization of the space being like a concentration camp was litigation hyperbole," he said.
		Free speech and assembly on the line Boston Pheonix, May 21 - 27, 2004
	www.vulnwatch.org /misc/pics/free-speech-pen (283 words)

	Free speech zone - SourceWatch
		A free speech zone is an area set aside for protesters, within which law enforcement supposedly will not interfere with them if they stay inside it, but may arrest or assail them if they venture out of it.
		It is often at a remote location from which the protesters need not be seen or heard by those attending the event being protested.
		Charles Levendosky, "Hiding protestors in 'Free Speech Zones' is cowardly and un-American (http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11092003/commenta/109238.asp)", The Salt Lake Tribune, November 9, 2003.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Free_speech_zone (588 words)

	The Ledger: Lakeland, Polk County, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Commissioners voted 4-1 in March to create the free speech zone outside the County Administration Building in Bartow after the First Baptist Church of Bartow put a Nativity scene there without permission last year.
		The idea of making it impossible for you to use the free speech corner is ludicrous," he said.
		Commissioner Bob English, who was the only commissioner to vote against both the creation of the free speech zone and its accompanying policy, said the potential for a legal challenge is proof that the county should not have created the zone.
	www.theledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051122/NEWS/511220333/1048/YOURTOWN (553 words)

	In the Zone
		The entire free-speech zone policy comes from a three-paragraph section of the student handbook, "The Mountie." Which makes it the perfect Orwellian law: It's ubiquitous and enforceable and no one is accountable for it.
		The university police cited his breach of the free-speech zone as the grounds for their intervention.
		In 1991 the student board of governors voted against a symbolic measure to support free speech on campus.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/052vmmvl.asp (548 words)

	Outside convention, dissenters seek audience
		The demonstrators are contained in the socalled Free Speech Zone — a stark area surrounded by a fence topped with razor wire.
		Bob made his rambling but impassioned remarks in the so-called Free Speech Zone — officially known by Boston’s city government as the Demonstration Zone — a stark area surrounded by a fence topped with razor wire.
		Back at the zone, Bob was surrounded by signs with slogans against the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, the mistreatment of Palestinians and one that referred to John Kerry and John Edwards as “Girly Men.”
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/2372.html (1113 words)

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