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Free Speech Pen at DNC 2004
Why is the "free speech zone" penned in and the delegates in the open? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't the delegates' bus parking area and their walkway to the convention center be fenced in and citizens able to protest in the open public space?
How did we get to the point where some citizen speech is penned and the people who are imposing themselves with extraordinary security needs (which us taxpayers are footing the bill for) speak and roam freely. There's some kind of 1984ish inversion principle going on here.

The words of Judge Douglas P. Woodlock reviewing the case on July 22, 2004, "I at first thought, before taking a view (of the protest zone), that the characterization of the space being like a concentration camp was litigation hyperbole," he said. "Now I believe it's an understatement."

His mouth is safe from spreading fatal communicable diseases to the convention delegates.
DNCC 2004 Info:

Judge upholds free speech protest 'pen' for DNC", Boston Globe, July 22, 2004
Call to Boycott the "Free Speech Zones", Boston IMC, 13 Jul 2004
Activists to Boycott "Free Speech Zones"
Free speech and assembly on the line Boston Pheonix, May 21 - 27, 2004
Convention Plan Puts Protesters Blocks Away, Boston Globe, February 20, 2004


Other "Free Speech Zone" Info:
Disinfopedia definition
.Free-Speech Zone., The American Conservative, December 15, 2003 issue
Speakers Cornered, Reason, February 5, 2004