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Shame of the Convention and a Foretaste of a Kerry presidency

The DNC’s “free speech” cage in Boston was a shameful thing, but it shows how we can expect a President Kerry to respond to protest if he wins in November

The free speech cage at the site of the Boston Democratic Convention should be left standing permanently as a monument in this city that is awash in symbols of the founding of the nation. It should be left where it is to remind future generations—and maybe people in contemporary America—how far we have moved away from the ideals of the Bill of Rights because of the current campaign of fear, a campaign that has now been adopted whole-heartedly by the Democrats under the leadership of John Kerry.



There was absolutely no justification for the Democrats of the DNC and the Democratic mayor of Boston to adopt the shameful strategy of the Bush Presidency for dealing with protest—fencing it in behind razor wire.



The protests planned for the DNC, mostly by A.N.S.W.E.R., have been and were going to be peaceful.



The alleged threats of terror, emanating from the Bush Department of Homeland Security and the Bush Department of Justice were absurd—a warning that the media would be attacked! Warnings of attacks on public transit! Look out! It was all calculated to embarrass the Democrats and, incredibly, it worked.



The fact that the Democrats fell for this kind of paranoia-inducing hockum shows how far into madness the American public has descended.



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