“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

—Francis Bacon
(1561–1626)

Contact me


Main Page Things to Think About The State of Affairs Stuff I Found Writer Droppings
Archives Travel Stories Pointless Musics Sweater Weather mp3 List
« Starry-eyed Dylan Nostalgia | Main Page | Pandas Mate »

Free Speech Zones

by Paul • August 20, 2004 • 04:01 PM • Comments: 1

This is a pretty interesting article by Jim Hightower about the increasingly common practice of “free speech zones” that we’re starting to see wherever folks gather to do what used to be called protesting. The powers that be in both parties learned some valuable lessons in the 1960s, and have been learning other valuable lessons since then about using the media to manipulate public opinion. It’s a science now.


Comments

chuck montgomery on August 21, 2004 1:14 PM

i like the cut of your jib.


Post a comment

If you haven't left a comment here before, we're just going to give it a quick look before it’s published, just to make sure you’re not a vile spammer. It will appear on the site once it’s approved. If you include more than two URLs, your comment will probably be flagged as spam and I may accidentally delete it.


« Starry-eyed Dylan Nostalgia | Main Page | Pandas Mate »