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Originally posted by bilmore
Kerry just wants prior restraint for someone else's book.
But, he's your guy, so we can't expect you to complain about THAT Constitutional violation, right?
(Partisanship has mooted any intellectual political discussion these days.)
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Cite please. A brief Google only came up with some conservative blog on the Kerry campaign asking the publisher to pull "Unfit for Command" because of factual inaccuracies. I didn't see anything that mentioned him using the government (or even the courts) to block publication.
Even if he were, I think limitations on commercial speech are a far cry from arresting someone just for their opinion expressed on a t-shirt (and then that person coincidentally gets fired from her federal job) or barring people from a POTUS appearance because of a sticker on a wallet. Do you think this is OK???
I don't give people a free pass because they are on "my side." I think relegating protesters at the Dem convention was terrible. If the Kerry campaign is having local police arrest people with anti-Kerry t-shirts at campaign appearances or banning people with pro-Bush stickers or buttons, please let me know and I'll vent about that too.
IMHO, discussing "free speech zones" and people being arrested at campaign appearances because they are wearing t-shirts critical of the POTUS (or other candidate if it happens with any other candidate) should not be a partisan issue.
