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Pretty sure that the US, UK and Europe fixed that back in the 90s, during the anti-globalization protests. Ever since the Democratic Party established in 2004
by pessimizer 2y ago
Pretty sure that the US, UK and Europe fixed that back in the 90s, during the anti-globalization protests.
Ever since the Democratic Party established in 2004 that you could designate "Free Speech Zones" where the constitution would be in effect, and literally put bars around them, it was an inevitability that people living in US vassals that have never had strong speech protections would lose it all. The US sets the standard for a written absolute free speech right, but makes bad speech its biggest enemy and covertly finances censors overseas to lobby against free speech protections.
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Random person on internet:
> Has anyone heard about the protester pen set up at the Democratic convention?
> It's constructed with mesh, chain link & razor wire to contain any DNC protesters - not after they've been rounded up by police for unlawful activity - but to house them while they are protesting!
> "U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock called the barbed-wire pen "an affront to free expression'' and "irrefutably sad'' but necessary because of protesters' antics in New York and Los Angeles."
> Story here. [http://news.bostonherald.com/dncConvention/view.bg?articleid=36804 http://news.bostonherald.com/dncConvention/view.bg?articleid...]
> And this is the Democratic convention.
> I've got a really bad feeling about this.
https://files.electro-music.com/forum/topic-2781-0.html https://files.electro-music.com/forum/topic-2781-0.html
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truthout, Sunday 25 July 2004:
> Demonstrators who want to be within sight and sound of the delegates entering and leaving the Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston this coming week will be forced to protest in a special "demonstration zone" adjacent to the terminal where buses carrying the delegates will arrive. 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 outermost fence is covered with black mesh that is designed to repel liquids. Much of the area is under an abandoned elevated train line. The zone is covered by another black net which is topped by razor wire. There will be no sanitary facilities in the zone and tables and chairs will not be permitted. There is no way for the demonstrators to pass written materials to the convention delegates.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050625073603/http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/072504A.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20050625073603/http://www.trutho...