This will be happening more and more as the Clinton II/Obama Administration takes power...whether it is the so called "Fairness Doctrine" or the outright silencing of opposing viewpoints...From One News Now:
No trial has occurred so far in a Philadelphia free-speech case....The incident in question happened during an election night party in Philadelphia for Barack Obama, when a young man showed up wearing a McCain-Palin T-shirt. A video shows he was roughed up a bit, handcuffed, and jailed. Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel says there is a constitutional right to freedom of expression that this man was denied...."What I am afraid of is that there are some people who want to simply silence your views," he explains. "They talk about tolerance. They talk about, in fact, that they want to have everyone be tolerant toward one another, but in reality you find it's only a left-leaning liberal view that they're talking about."...Staver was asked if police could legitimately make an arrest if they feared for the man's safety or if a riot might occur. "Well, certainly if a riot did take place, then the police can intervene and protect this man, but they can't arrest somebody simply because they think his viewpoints will cause someone else to respond," he contends. "There is no such thing as a heckler's veto."..The unidentified suspect was charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, although neither charge has been proven.
Read Here: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=327994
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Didn't this same thing happen dozens of times at various Bush/Cheney rallies?
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That's not exactly accurate. In the 2004 election cycle the general rule of the Bush campaign was to eject any and all people who wore T-shirts that were either pro-Kerry or anti-Bush. ABC news went so far as to test this rule by having producers try and attend a rally wearing Kerry t-shirts. They were ejected. When they tried the same thing at a Kerry rally they were allowed in - albeit they were constantly surrounded by a group of people with large placards thus hiding them from view.
Bush even went further and barred people with opposing views from taxpayer funded events which should have been open to all the people. A Texas couple were paid $80,000 by the Bush after they were ejected from an event for wearing a t-shirt that said 'Regime Change Starts At Home'.
It's fine for you to have an opposing viewpoint but you loose your credibility when you are less then honest.
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